Anyone who know where I can find online research papers and thesis materials about Young Adult Novels?

Question

This is very important!!! I gotta write my diploma work!!!

Answer 1

Young Adult Novels. This term would have to be defined. If you mean from say Victorian times forward, remember that ideas about who is going to read a particular book have changed a good deal over time. Some will naturally assume that the target audience is a child about the same age as the main character, and that's always going to be one target. But historically, people were much more sheltered from the "facts of life," both about sexual matters and about crime and violence, than they are now. Mass media has torn that to shreds.

So young adult material could range from things like the Brontes and certainly Louisa May Alcott, through L M Montgomery and other writers who were actually writing to a broader audience in their own minds, as the idea that adults would not bother to read it unless it was unsuitable for a child had not yet been devised.

If, on the other hand your purpose is those currently being published, you cannot do better than do focus on the ways in which that presumption of who the reader is has stifled the publishing industry for years, and how much we owe to Scholastic Press and J. K. Rowling for breaking down age barriers in her unique series about Harry Potter.

Have I given you a slant to get you started?