The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children: Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present...

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Simon Bacon Leo Ruickbie

The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children

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ISBN: 9781785275203

Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day

Simon Bacon, Leo Ruickbie

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English

Anthem Press
30 September 2020

Popular culture

Series: Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature

The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis presents important findings on socio-cultural representations and embodiments of the child and childhood.

At the start of the 21st, new anxieties constellate around the child and childhood, while older concerns have re-emerged, mutated, and grown stronger. But as historical analysis shows, they have been ever-present concerns. This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil. The book takes an inter- and multidisciplinary approach, drawing upon fields as diverse as sociology, psychology, film, and literature, to study the role of the child and childhood within contemporary Western culture and to see the historic ways in which each discipline intersects and influences the other.

Edited by: Simon Bacon, Leo Ruickbie
Imprint: Anthem Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781785275203
ISBN 10: 1785275208
Series: Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has written extensively on vampires, monsters and the construction of difference in contemporary culture. Leo Ruickbie is a writer, editor and social scientist specialising in controversial areas of human belief and experience. He is the author of several books on witchcraft, magic and the supernatural.

Reviews for The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children: Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day

Bacon and Ruickbie have assembled a diverse and fascinating bestiary of essays engaging the fear of and for children. With insight and nuance the contributors investigate teenage werewolves (real ones?), child zombies, ancient adolescent vampires, phantasmal progenies, evil offspring, and terrifying tykes, among other anomalous children from the Renaissance through the Slenderman era. Each essays offers an insight into the terrors of youth, but the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, revealing a tapestry of anxiety and dread regarding childhood and adolescence that transcends cultures and historic periods. Reader beware - you will never want to babysit again after this book. - Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor and author of Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema