TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renner,Karen J.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Evil Children in the Popular Imagination
SN  - 9781137599636(ebook:PDF)
U1  - 306.083 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US(Imprint)
KW  - Youth-Social life and customs
KW  - Film genres
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - Youth Culture
KW  - Childhood, Adolescence and Society
KW  - Media and Communication
KW  - Comparative Literature
N1  - Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Monstrous Births -- 2. Gifted Children -- 3. Child Ghosts -- 4. Possessed Children -- 5. Ferals -- 6. Changelings -- Primary Sources -- Works Cited -- Index
N2  - Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity. From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns. In this book, Renner illustrates how each subtype offers a different explanation for the problem of the "evil" child and adapts to changing historical circumstances and ideologies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59963-6
ER  -