From the author of the critically acclaimed England's Dreaming, a landmark cultural history of youth

Teenagers—as we have come to define them—were not, award-winning author Jon Savage tells us, born in the 1950s of rockers and Beatniks, when most histories would begin. Rather, the teenager as icon can be traced back to the 1890s, when the foundations for the new century were laid in urban youth culture.

Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture is a monumental cultural history that charts the spread of the American ideal of youth through England and Europe and around the world. From Peter Pan to Oscar Wilde, Anne Frank to the Wizard of Oz, Savage documents youth culture's development as a commodity and an industry from the turn of the last century to its current driving force in the global economy. Fusing film, music, literature, diaries, fashion, and art, this epic cultural history is an astonishing and surprising chronicle of modern life sure to appeal to pop culture fans, social history buffs, and anyone who has ever been a teenager.

喬恩•薩維奇（Jon Savage 1958—） 畢業於劍橋大學，英國朋剋時代一位著名的播音員、音樂評論傢、作傢。1976年齣版名為《倫敦的憤怒》（London’s Outrage）的流行雜誌，並為當時英國三大主流音樂評論報紙之一的《聲音》（Sounds）、《The Face》等多傢媒體工作。著有作品：《時光旅行》（Time Travel）、《奇想樂隊》(The Kinks)等。1991年齣版講述朋剋文化史的《英格蘭的夢想》（England’s Dream），被贊譽為一部裏程碑式的作品。本書是喬恩2007年齣版的最新作品。