Teenage Time: Coming of Age Disruptively in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Film

by Pamela Thurschwell

Adolescence has been codified as an unpredictable, experimental and liminal time. Teenage Time reads this phase as queer in its framing and disruption of developmental narratives of modernity, showing that the identity of the teenager, as it has been culturally perceived in different epochs developing since the 1940s, has shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century. From the conception of the teenager after the Second World...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350318426
• ISBN13: 9781350318427
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"