Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures
This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency. Examining representations of cruel young people in popular texts and popular culture, the colle
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CR U E L CH I L D R E N I N POP U L A R T E XT S A ND C U LT U R E S
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature Series Editors Kerry Mallan Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, QLD, Australia Clare Bradford Deakin University Burwood, VIC, Australia
This timely new series brings innovative perspectives to research on children’s literature. It offers accessible but sophisticated accounts of contemporary critical approaches and applies them to the study of a diverse range of children’s texts—literature, film and multimedia. Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature includes monographs from both internationally recognised and emerging scholars. It demonstrates how new voices, new combinations of theories, and new shifts in the scholarship of literary and cultural studies illuminate the study of children’s texts. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14930
Monica Flegel · Christopher Parkes Editors
Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures
Editors Monica Flegel Lakehead University Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Christopher Parkes Lakehead University Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature ISBN 978-3-319-72274-0 ISBN 978-3-319-72275-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72275-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017964131 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: duncan1890/Getty Images Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
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The Social Function of Child Cruelty 1 Monica Flegel and Christopher Parkes
Part I Early Exemplars of the Cruel Child 2
“This Sport of Torment
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