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Evil Children in the Popular Imagination

Karen J. Renner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

213 Seiten

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

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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.

“Evil Children is an encyclopedic survey of the supernatural and ‘supernormal’ young that haunt our popular culture. … her book is a terrific resource for childhood scholars who may want to research and teach representations of the bad and the ugly alongside the good.” (Adam Golub, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 11 (2), 2018)

Erscheinungsdatum	13.01.2017
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