The cultural construction of monstrous children : essays on anomalous children from 1595 to the present day /: essays on anomalous children from 1595 to the present day. (2020)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The cultural construction of monstrous children : essays on anomalous children from 1595 to the present day /: essays on anomalous children from 1595 to the present day. (2020)
- Main Title:
- The cultural construction of monstrous children : essays on anomalous children from 1595 to the present day
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Simon Bacon and Leo Ruickbie.
- Editors:
- Ruickbie, Leo
- Other Names:
- Bacon, Simon, 1965-
- Contents:
- 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 FactualCover -- 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 … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London, UK New York, NY : Anthem Press
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Copyright Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 305.23
Children -- History
Children in literature
Children in motion pictures
Monsters in popular culture
Good and evil
Children
Children in literature
Children in motion pictures
Good and evil
Monsters in popular culture
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
Electronic books
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781785275227
1785275224
9781785275210
1785275216 - Related ISBNs:
- 1785275208
9781785275203 - Notes:
- Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2020).
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.685216
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