An edition of Bloody murder
(2013)
Bloody murder
the homicide tradition in children's literature
by Michelle Ann Abate
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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, Children's literature, history and criticism, United states, history, Crime in literaturePlaces
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Bloody murder: the homicide tradition in children's literature
2013, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
1421408406 9781421408408
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Table of 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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