Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures
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| Summary: | XIII, 312 p. 7 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72275-7 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Social Function of Child Cruelty; Monica Flegel and Christopher Parkes
- 2. “This Sport of Tormenting”: Cruel Children and their Animals in British Literature, 1750-1800; Heather Ladd
- 3. Innocent Cruelty and the Love of Beauty in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales; Monica Flegel
- 4. Anne is Angry: Female Beauty and the Transformative Power of Cruelty in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables; Christopher Parkes
- 5. Old-School Bullies at Hogwarts: The Pre-Victorian Roots of J.K. Rowling’s Depiction of Child-on-child Violence; Katharine Kittredge and Carolyn Rennie
- 6. Bullies, the Bullied and Bullying Narratives in Contemporary Fiction; Clare Bradford and Lara Hedberg
- 7. Murderous Misfits and Misguided Mentors in Rohan O’Grady’s Let’s Kill Uncle; Rebecca Brown
- 8. Exceptional and Destructive: The Dangerous Child and the Atom Bomb in Postwar Science Fiction; Kristen Gregory
- 9. “Tag . . . You’re It”: Cold War Comics and the Performance of Boyhood and Criminality; Hans Staats
- 10. “Child Psychopath” Films of the 1980s and 1990s; Karen J. Renner
- 11. A “Voodoo Doll in Diapers”: Deconstructing the Cruel Child in Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin (2003); Sandra Dinter
- 12. “I Want to Die as Myself”: Young Adult Dystopias, Cruelty, and Resistance; Carrie Hintz
- 13. Kindness in a Cruel World: The Formation of Agentic Non-Heteronormative Identity in Contemporary YA Fictions; Victorian Flanagan
- 14. Camping the Killer Child: The Queer Humor of William March’s The Bad Seed on Page, Stage, and Screen; Tison Pugh.