TY - JOUR AU - Hateley, Erica PY - 2014/04/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Irregular Readers. Arthur Conan Doyle’s “six dirty scoundrels”, Boyhood and Literacy in Contemporary Sherlockian Children’s Literature JF - Barnboken JA - clr VL - 37 IS - 0 SE - Övriga artiklar/Other Articles DO - 10.14811/clr.v37i0.167 UR - https://www.barnboken.net/index.php/clr/article/view/167 SP - AB - 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.Keywords: Young adult literature; detective fiction; masculinity; literacy;adolescence; intertextuality ER -