1st Edition
New Directions in Children's Gothic Debatable Lands
Edited By Anna Jackson
Copyright 2017
208 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Children’s literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children’s gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children’s Gothic now when traditional monsters have become the heroes, when new monsters have come into play, when globalisation brings Harry Potter... Read more
Contents
Introduction
- ‘Do Panic. They’re Coming:’ Remaking the Weird in contemporary children’s fiction
- Cuckoo Songs: The Changeling as Hero
- ‘These are troubling, confusing times’: Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak as Post-9/11 Gothic
- Figuring the Witch.
- Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales: Horror, History and the Haunted Chinese Child
- Girls in Lace Dresses: The Intersections of Gothic in Japanese Youth Fiction and Fashion
- The Gothic in Oceania
- ‘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
- Adolescent Angels and Demons: The Religious Imagination in Young Adult Gothic Literature
- ‘Mind to Mind’: The Gothic Loss of Privacy in the Twilight Saga and Chaos Walking Trilogy
- ‘THIS HILL IS STILL DANGEROUS’: Alan Garner’s Weirdstone Trilogy – A Hauntology
Chloe Buckley
Geoffrey Miles
Philip Serrato
David Punter
You Chengcheng
Emerald L. King and Lucy Fraser
Erin Mercer
Catherine Spooner
Rebecca Wigginton
Alexandra Valint
Timothy Jones
Biography
Anna Jackson is an Associate Professor in English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
