This book addresses a gap in the critical literature between adult Gothic narrative and children's and YA literature in the Gothic tradition. The volume asks how this literature helps readers contextualize and understand their psychological and social environments during periods of cultural change, global terror, and economic uncertainty.
This book addresses a gap in the critical literature between adult Gothic narrative and children's and YA literature in the Gothic tradition. The volume asks how this literature helps readers contextualize and understand their psychological and social environments during periods of cultural change, global terror, and economic uncertainty.
Anna Jackson is an Associate Professor in English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
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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
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
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