Evil Children in the Popular Imagination

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Buch | Hardcover
213 Seiten
2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-60321-0 (ISBN)

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Evil Children in the Popular Imagination - Karen J. Renner
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Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity. From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns. In this book, Renner illustrates how each subtype offers a different explanation for the problem of the “evil” child and adapts to changing historical circumstances and ideologies.

Karen J. Renner is Lecturer of English at Northern Arizona University, USA. She is the editor of The 'Evil' Child in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (2012) and the author of articles that have appeared in such journals as Frame: Journal of Literary Studies, Red Feather: An International Journal of Children's Visual Culture, and Film Studies: An International Review.

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Monstrous Births.- 2. Gifted Children.- 3. Child Ghosts.- 4. Possessed Children.- 5. Ferals.- 6. Changelings.- Primary Sources.- Works Cited.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo VII, 213 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte childhood studies • evil child • evil children • Gothic • Horror • popular culture
ISBN-10 1-137-60321-6 / 1137603216
ISBN-13 978-1-137-60321-0 / 9781137603210
Zustand Neuware
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