Bloody murder
Abate, Michelle Ann, 1975-
Bloody murder the homicide tradition in children's literature / [electronic resource] : Michelle Ann Abate. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (280 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421408415 1421408414
Murder in literature.
Social values in literature.
Literature and society--History.--United States
Crime in popular culture--History.--United States
Homicide in literature.
Children's literature, American--History and criticism.
Children's literature, English--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN1009.5.H66 / A23 2010
820.9/9282
Bloody murder the homicide tradition in children's literature / [electronic resource] : Michelle Ann Abate. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (280 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421408415 1421408414
Murder in literature.
Social values in literature.
Literature and society--History.--United States
Crime in popular culture--History.--United States
Homicide in literature.
Children's literature, American--History and criticism.
Children's literature, English--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN1009.5.H66 / A23 2010
820.9/9282