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Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King
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2020
Summary
This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King’s works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent publications. King’s use of child characters within the framework of horror (or of horrific childhood) raises questions about adult expectations of children, childhood, the American family, child agency, and the nature of fear and terror for (or by) children. The ways in which King presents, complicates, challenges, or terrorizes children and notions of childhood provide a unique lens through which to examine American culture, including both adult and social anxieties about children and childhood across the decades of King’s works.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0012-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0013-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
344
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 1 Degeneration through Violence and Stephen King’s Rage No access
Chapter 2 “Such a Tragedy Might Have Been Averted” No access
Chapter 3 The Children as Nemesis No access
Chapter 4 Of “Pagan Devil-Children” and Monstrous Plants No access
Chapter 5 The Spectacle of Child-Suffering in Stephen King’s The Long Walk No access
Chapter 6 Monstrosity, Ethic of Care, and Moral Agency in Stephen King’s Firestarter No access
Chapter 7 Boys in The Body No access
Chapter 8 “Not if I See You First” No access
Chapter 9 “Performing a Kind of Self-Pyschoanalysis” No access
Chapter 10 Animals, Innocence, and the Terr[or]tories in The Talisman No access
Chapter 11 “They Were Not All Found” No access
Chapter 12 “You’ll Float Too” No access
Chapter 13 “What an Enormous Act This Is” No access
Chapter 14 (Dis)Abling Dinah No access
Chapter 15 Girls with Teeth No access
Chapter 16 Power, Vulnerability, and Duality in Doctor Sleep No access
Chapter 17 Seeing and Believing as a Child in It and The Outsider No access
