TY - BOOK
T1 - Evil children in the popular imagination
AU - Renner, Karen J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) and The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-59963-6
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-59963-6
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85028879220
SN - 9781137603210
BT - Evil children in the popular imagination
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -