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Bloody murder the homicide tradition in children's literature
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Bloody murder [electronic resource] : the homicide tradition in children's literature / Michelle Ann Abate.
ISBN
1421408414
9781421408415
1421408406 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
9781421408408 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 p.)
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Literature.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 13, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Once upon a crime: homicide in American culture and popular children's literature from "Bluebeard" to Harry Potter
"You must kill her and bring me her lungs and liver as proof": "Snow White" and the fact as well as fantasy of filicide
"The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties... 'off with his head!' ": Alice's adventures in Wonderland and the anti-gallows movement
"Swarthy, sun-tanned, villainous looking fellows": Tarzan of the apes and criminal anthropology
"A sixth sense seemed to tell her that she had encountered something unusual": psychic sleuthing in the Nancy Drew mystery series
"How'd you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?": juvenile delinquency, teenager killers and a pulp aesthetic in the Outsiders
"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
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.
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