The Gothic in children's literature : haunting the borders

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The Gothic in children's literature : haunting the borders

edited by Anna Jackson, Karen Coats, and Roderick McGillis

(Children's literature and culture / Jack Zipes, series editor)

Routledge, c2008

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very different genres, the Gothic and children's literature. The Gothic, concerned with the perverse and the forbidden, with adult sexuality and religious or metaphysical doubts and heresies, seems to represent everything that children's literature, as a genre, was designed to keep out. Indeed, this does seem to be very much the way that children's literature was marketed in the late eighteenth century, at exactly the same time that the Gothic was really taking off, written by the same women novelists who were responsible for the promotion of a safe and segregated children's literature. This collection examines the early intersection of the Gothic and children's literature and the contemporary manifestations of the gothic impulse, revealing that Gothic elements can, in fact, be traced in children's literature for as long as children have been reading.

目次

Introduction 1. The Haunted Nursery: 1764-1830 2. Cyberspace and the Gothic Novel 3. Frightening and Funny: Humor in Children's Gothic Fiction 4. Between Horror, Humor, and Hope: Neil Gaiman and the Psychic Work of the Gothic 5. On the Gothic Beach: A New Zealand Reading of House and Landscape in Margaret Mahy's 'The Tricksters' 6. High Winds and Broken Bridges: The Gothic and the West Indies in Twentieth Century British Fiction for Children 7. The Scary Tale Looks for a Family: Gary Crew's 'Gothic Hospital' and Sonya Hartnett's 'The Devil Latch' 8. Haunting the Borders of Sword and Sorcery: Garth Nix's 'The Seventh Tower' 9. Uncanny Ghosts, Canny Children 10. Hermione in the Bathroom: Menarche, the Grotesque, and Female Development in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' 11. Fantastic Books: The Gothic Architecture of Children's Books 12. The Night Side of Nature: Gothic Spaces, Fearful Times

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