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The cultural construction of monstrous children : essays on anomalous children from 1595 to the present day /

This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bacon, Simon, 1965-, Ruickbie, Leo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2020.
Colección:Anthem studies in Gothic literature
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapters -- Introduction -- 1. The Anomalous Child -- 2. The Anomalous Body of the Child -- 3. Anomalous Investigations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I Historical Case Studies -- Chapter One The Possession of John Starkie -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Possession -- 3. The Magic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Two the Naughty Little Children: The Paranormal and Teenagers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adolescence and Occultism 
505 8 |a 3. The Case of Jeanne -- 4. Parapsychology and the Teenager as a Focus Person for Recurrent Spontaneous Psycho-Kinesis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Three I Was a Real Teenage Werewolf: The Seventeenth-​Century Witchcraft Trial of Jean Grenier -- 1. 'He Had Very Long and Bright Teeth': Meeting the Werewolf -- 2. Hunting the Werewolf: The Initial Investigations -- 3. Trying the Werewolf: Criminal Trial Proceedings in Bordeaux -- 4. Bewitching the Werewolf: The Construction of the Witchcraft Narrative -- 5. 'To the Depths of Hell': The Theological Conundrum of Werewolfery 
505 8 |a 6. 'To Lust after Human Flesh': The Lessons of Lycanthropy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Four Deviance on Display: The Feral and the Monstrous Child -- 1. Introduction and a First Panoramic View -- 2. Kaspar Hauser and His Kin: Taming the Wild Child -- 3. Staging Stigma -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Factual Anxiety in Fictional Representations: The Undead Child -- Chapter Five Imprints: Forming and Tracing the Malevolent Ghost-Child -- 1. Introduction: From Folklore to Fiction -- 2. Spectral Ambivalence in Victorian/Edwardian Fiction 
505 8 |a 3. Crafting Corporeal Malevolence -- 3. Reprints: The Wrath of the Child -- 5. Mending the Rift -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Six Undead Role Models: Why the Zombie Child is Irresistible -- 1. Zombie Kids: From Hope to Dread -- 2. Night of the Living Dead and the Dawn of the Zombie Child in Film -- 3. The Walking Dead and the Rise of Zombie Ethics -- 4. Zombie Tykes or Empathy with the 'Living Impaired' -- 5. Conclusion: From Trauma to Melotrauma -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Seven Children for Ever! Monsters of Eternal Youth and the Reification of Childhood -- 1. Introduction 
505 8 |a 2. A Child Is Born? -- 3. The Ghost Child -- 4. The Vampire Child -- 5. The Zombie Child -- 6. Never-Ending Story -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Factual Anxiety in Fictional Representations: The Monstrous Child -- Chapter Eight 'Not A Child. Not Old. Not A Boy. Not A Girl': Representing Childhood in Let the Right One In -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Monsters and Monstrous Children -- 3. Eli as a Post-developmental Child? -- 4. Beyond the Dionysian/Apollonian Child -- 5. Reclaiming the Streets: Resisting the Domestication of Childhood -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography 
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