Evil Children in the Popular Imagination

Karen J. Renner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

213 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-92774-6 (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.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Monstrous Births2. Gifted Children3. Child Ghosts4. Possessed Children5. Ferals6. ChangelingsPrimary Sources
Works CitedIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	VII, 213 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	childhood studies • evil child • evil children • Gothic • Horror • popular culture
ISBN-10	1-349-92774-0 / 1349927740
ISBN-13	978-1-349-92774-6 / 9781349927746
Zustand	Neuware