Evil Children in the Popular Imagination

Evil Children in the Popular Imagination
ISBN-10
1137599634
ISBN-13
9781137599636
Category
Social Science
Pages
213
Language
English
Published
2016-12-15
Publisher
Springer
Author
Karen J. Renner

Description

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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