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Hogwarts and all [electronic resource] : gothic perspectives on children's literature / Gregory G. Pepetone.

Pepetone, Gregory G., 1946-
2012
PN1009.A1 P444 2012eb
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Title
Hogwarts and all [electronic resource] : gothic perspectives on children's literature / Gregory G. Pepetone.
Author
Pepetone, Gregory G., 1946-
ISBN
9781453905777 (electronic book)
9781433100604
Published
New York : Peter Lang, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (236 pages)
Call Number
PN1009.A1 P444 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.89282
Summary
Hogwarts and All explores modern children's literature from its origins in the nineteenth-century cult of childhood, a cultural movement inseparable from Christian theology. From the Kunstmärchen (adult fairy tales) of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German romanticism through Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling, this genre, like all gothic arts, has served as an alternative cultural perspective to that of scientific materialism. Its benignly subversive message is that a civilization that abandons its commitment to the childlike values of wonder, trust, sacrificial love, spontaneity, vulnerability, and faith in radical possibilities for peace, social justice, and human happiness - all qualities endorsed by Ray Bradbury, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, and other authors discussed in this volume - is a civilization at risk.
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Hogwarts and All explores modern children's literature from its origins in the nineteenth-century cult of childhood, a cultural movement inseparable from Christian theology. From the Kunstmärchen (adult fairy tales) of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German romanticism through Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling, this genre, like all gothic arts, has served as an alternative cultural perspective to that of scientific materialism. Its benignly subversive message is that a civilization that abandons its commitment to the childlike values of wonder, trust, sacrificial love, spontaneity, vulnerability, and faith in radical possibilities for peace, social justice, and human happiness - all qualities endorsed by Ray Bradbury, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, and other authors discussed in this volume - is a civilization at risk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface: Kinder-goth and the seedtime of the soul
Märchen, adult fairytales, and cyclic journeys: A Christmas Carol in context
Enantiodromia or transcendence: The walker's dark journey
How grim is the reaper?
Fates worse than death: The amazing Mr. Blunden and A wind in the door
Rendering unto Caesar: The sword of the spirits trilogy
Coping with the unthinkable: The political gothic imagination of Madeleine L'Engle
Another side of The inklings
Magic is might: A political gothic parable
Psychological gothic: Reflections on Rowling's back stories
Conclusion: Twilight of the archetypal child.

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