Bloody murder
Subtitle: the homicide tradition in children's literature
By: Michelle Ann Abate
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781421408408; 9781421408415
Subjects: Murder in literature; Literature and society; Homicide in literature; Children's literature, English; History and criticism; Children's literature, American; Crime in popular culture; Social values in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Once upon a crime: homicide in American culture and popular children's literature from "Bluebeard" to Harry Potter; title: "You must kill her and bring me her lungs and liver as proof": "Snow White" and the fact as well as fantasy of filicide; title: "The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties... 'off with his head!' ": Alice's adventures in Wonderland and the anti-gallows movement; title: "Swarthy, sun-tanned, villainous looking fellows": Tarzan of the apes and criminal anthropology; title: "A sixth sense seemed to tell her that she had encountered something unusual": psychic sleuthing in the Nancy Drew mystery series; title: "How'd you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?": juvenile delinquency, teenager killers and a pulp aesthetic in the Outsiders; title: "My job is... to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury": confronting the dramatization-and demonization-of murder in Walter Dean Myers' monster; title: Epilogue: "Just because you don't have a pulse doesn't mean you can't be perky": my so-called death, young adult zombie fiction and murder in the posthuman age.