New Directions in Children's Gothic

Debatable Lands
Herausgeber: Jackson, Anna

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book compliments The Gothic in Children's Literature (2007), which addressed a gap in the critical literature between adult Gothic narrative and children's and YA literature in the Gothic tradition. The uptake of the Gothic in children's publishing since then necessitates an analysis of the Gothic in children's literature in the new millennium, examining the proliferation of new versions of fairies, angels, demons, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, and witches. The volume asks how this literature helps readers contextualize and understand their psychological and social environments during periods of individual growth, cultural change, global terror, and economic uncertainty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781138905474
• ISBN-10: 113890547X
• Artikelnr.: 43020861

Autorenporträt

Anna Jackson is an Associate Professor in English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.　

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1. 'Do Panic. They're Coming:' Remaking the Weird in contemporary
children's fiction
Chloe Buckley
2. Cuckoo Songs: The Changeling as Hero
Geoffrey Miles
3. 'These are troubling, confusing times': Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak
as Post-9/11 Gothic
Philip Serrato
4. Figuring the Witch.
David Punter
5. Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales: Horror, History and the Haunted
Chinese Child
You Chengcheng
6. Girls in Lace Dresses: The Intersections of Gothic in Japanese Youth
Fiction and Fashion
Emerald L. King and Lucy Fraser
7. The Gothic in Oceania
Erin Mercer
8. 'The Gothic is part of history, just as history is part of the
Gothic': Gothicising History and Historicising the Gothic in Celia
Rees' Young Adult Fiction
Catherine Spooner
9. Adolescent Angels and Demons: The Religious Imagination in Young
Adult Gothic Literature
Rebecca Wigginton
10. 'Mind to Mind': The Gothic Loss of Privacy in the Twilight Saga and
Chaos Walking Trilogy
Alexandra Valint
11. 'THIS HILL IS STILL DANGEROUS': Alan Garner's Weirdstone Trilogy - A
Hauntology
Timothy Jones