Aetonormativity its Transition and Impact A Rereading of Select Adolescent School Stories

Abstract

The depiction of adolescence in literature can be traced back to the beginning of literature itself, where adolescents appear in various forms as influential factors in most literary genres. However, this significant stage of human development has remained unexplored systematically until the field of psychology began to emphasize its relevance as a matter of serious discussion and research. Adolescence has been a compelling subject matter, especially in fiction from the time when the Augustan writers Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne brought the then-new style of the novel to maturation, inspiring the succeeding generation with their realistic adolescent protagonists. newline