The Gothic in Children's Literature
eBook - ePub

The Gothic in Children's Literature

Haunting the Borders

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Gothic in Children's Literature

Haunting the Borders

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series Editor's Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. The Haunted Nursery: 1764-1830
  8. 2. Cyberfiction and the Gothic Novel
  9. 3. Frightening and Funny: Humour in Children's Gothic Fiction
  10. 4. Between Horror, Humour, and Hope: Neil Gaiman and the Psychic Work of the Gothic
  11. 5. On the Gothic Beach: A New Zealand Reading of House and Landscape in Margaret Mahy's The Tricksters
  12. 6. High Winds and Broken Bridges: The Gothic and the West Indies in Twentieth-Century British Children's Literature
  13. 7. The Scary Tale Looks for a Family: Gary Crew's Gothic Hospital and Sonya Hartnett's The Devil Latch
  14. 8. Haunting the Borders of Sword and Sorcery: Garth Nix's The Seventh Tower
  15. 9. Uncanny Hauntings, Canny Children
  16. 10. Hermione in the Bathroom: The Gothic, Menarche, and Female Development in the Harry Potter Series
  17. 11. Making Nightmares into New Fairytales: Goth Comics as Children's Literature
  18. 12. Fantastic Books: The Gothic Architecture of Children's Books
  19. 13. The Night Side of Nature: Gothic Spaces, Fearful Times
  20. Contributors
  21. Index