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The Gothic in Children's Literature

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The Gothic in Children's Literature

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The Gothic in Children's Literature book

Haunting the Borders

The Gothic in Children's Literature

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The Gothic in Children's Literature book

Haunting the Borders
Edited ByAnna Jackson, Roderick McGillis, Karen Coats
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 31 May 2013
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203941645
Pages 264
eBook ISBN 9780203941645
Subjects Language & Literature
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Jackson, A., McGillis, R., & Coats, K. (Eds.). (2008). The Gothic in Children's Literature: Haunting the Borders (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203941645

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

Edited ByAnna Jackson, Roderick McGillis, Karen Coats

chapter 1|24 pages

e Haunted Nursery: 1764–1830

ByDALE TOWNSHEND

chapter 2|18 pages

Cyber ction and the Gothic Novel

ByNADIA CRANDALL

chapter 3|20 pages

Frightening and Funny: Humour in Children’s Gothic Fiction

ByJULIE CROSS

chapter 4|16 pages

Between Horror, Humour, and Hope: Neil Gaiman and the Psychic Work of the Gothic

ByKAREN COATS

chapter 5|24 pages

On the Gothic Beach: A New Zealand Reading of House and Landscape in Margaret Mahy’s e Tricksters

ByROSE LOVELL-SMITH

chapter 6|14 pages

High Winds and Broken Bridges: e Gothic and the West Indies in Twentieth-Century British Children’s Literature

ByKAREN SANDS-O’CONNOR

chapter 7|14 pages

e Scary Tale Looks for a Family: Gary Crew’s e Devil Latch

ByGothic Hospital and Sonya Hartnett’s ANNA SMITH

chapter 8|12 pages

Haunting the Borders of Sword and Sorcery: Garth Nix’s e Seventh Tower

ByALICE MILLS

chapter 9|20 pages

Uncanny Hauntings, Canny Children

ByANNA JACKSON

chapter 10|18 pages

Hermione in the Bathroom: e Gothic, Menarche, and Female Development in the Harry Potter Series

ByJUNE CUMMINS

chapter 11|14 pages

Making Nightmares into New Fairytales: Goth Comics as Children’s Literature

ByLAURIE N. TAYLOR

chapter 12|18 pages

Fantastic Books: e Gothic Architecture of Children’s Books

ByREBECCA-ANNE C. DO ROZARIO

chapter 13|16 pages

The Night Side of Nature: Gothic Spaces, Fearful Times

ByRODERICK MCGILLIS
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