TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abate,Michelle Ann
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Bloody murder: the homicide tradition in children's literature 
SN  - 9781421408415
AV  - PN1009.5.H66 A23 2010
U1  - 820.9/9282 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Murder in literature
KW  - Social values in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Crime in popular culture
KW  - Homicide in literature
KW  - Children's literature, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Children's literature, English
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421408415/
ER  -