| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages)
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| Disciplina |
808.899282
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| Collana |
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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| Soggetto topico |
Children's literature
Literature, Modern—20th century
America—Literatures
Children's Literature
Twentieth-Century Literature
North American Literature
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| ISBN |
3-319-72275-1
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
1. 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.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300024403321 |
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