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Title: Evil Children in the Popular Imagination
Author : Karen J. Renner
Release Date : January 15, 2016
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Arts & Entertainment,Film,Performing Arts,Fiction & Literature,Literary Criticism,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1806 KB

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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.