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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Anthem Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Anthem studies in Gothic literature
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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