Twenty-First-Century Children s Gothic: From the Wanderer to Nomadic Subject

ISBN-13: 9781474430173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str.

Chloe Germaine Buckley

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: From Gothic Wanderer to Nomadic Subject; 1. Un-homing Psychoanalysis through Neil Gaiman’s Coraline; 2. Fleeing Identification in Darren Shan’s Zom-B; 3. Exiled Lovers and Gothic Romance in Jamila Gavin’s Coram Boy and Paula Morris’s Ruined; 4. Relocating the mainstream in Frankenweenie and Paranorman; 5. The ‘Great Outdoors’ in the Weird fiction of Derek Landy and Anthony Horowitz; Conclusions: Francis Hardinge’s The Lie Tree and beyond; Works Cited.