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.

乔恩•萨维奇（Jon Savage 1958—） 毕业于剑桥大学，英国朋克时代一位著名的播音员、音乐评论家、作家。1976年出版名为《伦敦的愤怒》（London’s Outrage）的流行杂志，并为当时英国三大主流音乐评论报纸之一的《声音》（Sounds）、《The Face》等多家媒体工作。著有作品：《时光旅行》（Time Travel）、《奇想乐队》(The Kinks)等。1991年出版讲述朋克文化史的《英格兰的梦想》（England’s Dream），被赞誉为一部里程碑式的作品。本书是乔恩2007年出版的最新作品。