LEADER 04225nam 22005895 450 001 9910300024403321 005 20240702103343.0 010 $a9783319722757 010 $a3319722751 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-72275-7 035 $a(OCoLC)1034555646 035 $a(CKB)4100000003359253 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5356056 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-72275-7 035 $a(Perlego)3493753 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000003359253 100 $a20180419d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures /$fedited by Monica Flegel, Christopher Parkes 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages) 225 1 $aCritical Approaches to Children's Literature,$x2753-0833 311 08$a9783319722740 311 08$a3319722743 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency. Examining representations of cruel young people in popular texts and popular culture, the collected essays demonstrate how gender, race, and class influence who gets labeled 'cruel' and which actions are viewed as negative, aggressive, and disruptive. It shows how representations of cruel young people negotiate the violence that shadows polite society, and how narratives of cruelty and aggression are used to affirm, or to deny, young people's agency. 410 0$aCritical Approaches to Children's Literature,$x2753-0833 606 $aChildren's literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aChildren's Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 615 0$aChildren's literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 14$aChildren's Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 676 $a808.899282 702 $aFlegel$b Monica$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aParkes$b Christopher$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300024403321 996 $aCruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures$92252850 997 $aUNINA