@article{Hateley_2014, title={Irregular Readers. Arthur Conan Doyle’s “six dirty scoundrels”, Boyhood and Literacy in Contemporary Sherlockian Children’s Literature}, volume={37}, url={https://barnboken.net/index.php/clr/article/view/167}, DOI={10.14811/clr.v37i0.167}, abstractNote={<p>Young adult (YA) literature is a socialising genre that encourages young readers to take up particular ways of relating to historical or cultural materials. The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a boom in Sherlockian YA fiction using the Conan Doyle canon as a context and vocabulary for stories focused on the Baker Street Irregulars as figures of identification. This paper reads YA fiction’s deployment of Conan Doyle’s fictional universe as a strategy for negotiating anxieties of adolescent masculinity, particularly in relation to literacy and social agency.</p><p>Keywords: Young adult literature; detective fiction; masculinity; literacy;<br />adolescence; intertextuality</p&gt;}, journal={Barnboken}, author={Hateley, Erica}, year={2014}, month={Apr.} }