Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures / edited by Monica Flegel, Christopher Parkes.
Flegel, Monica, editor.; Parkes, Christopher, editor.
2018
PN1008.2-PN1009.5
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Title
Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures / edited by Monica Flegel, Christopher Parkes.
ISBN
9783319722757
3319722751
9783319722740
3319722743
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72275-7
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XIII, 312 pages 7 illustrations) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-72275-7 doi
9783319722740
Call Number
PN1008.2-PN1009.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.89282
Summary
This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency. Examining representations of cruel young people in popular texts and popular culture, the collected essays demonstrate how gender, race, and class influence who gets labeled 'cruel' and which actions are viewed as negative, aggressive, and disruptive. It shows how representations of cruel young people negotiate the violence that shadows polite society, and how narratives of cruelty and aggression are used to affirm, or to deny, young people's agency.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Flegel, Monica, editor.
Parkes, Christopher, editor.
Series
Critical approaches to children's literature.
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Print version: 9783319722740
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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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