Twenty-First-Century Children's Gothic
Subtitle: From the Wanderer to Nomadic Subject
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781474430173
Subjects: Children's stories; Gothic fiction (literary genre), history and criticism
Description: This is the first monograph that brings together the fields of Gothic Studies and children?s fiction to analyse a range of popular and literary works for children published since 2000. It offers a completely new way of reading children?s Gothic that counters the dominant critical positions in both Gothic Studies and children?s literature criticism. This book contends that the Gothic, as it is repurposed in children?s fiction, is a creative force through which to imagine positive self-transformation. It rejects the pedagogical model of children?s literature criticism, which analyses and assess works based on what or how they teach the child, and instead draws on the theories of Deleuze and Guattari, Rosi Braidotti and Benedict Spinoza to develop the theme of ?nomadic subjectivity?.