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020 _a9781421408415
020 _a1421408414
020 _z9781421408408 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z1421408406 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aPN1009.5.H66
_bA23 2010
082 0 0 _a820.9/9282
_223
100 1 _aAbate, Michelle Ann,
_d1975-
245 1 0 _aBloody murder
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe homicide tradition in children's literature /
_cMichelle Ann Abate.
260 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aOnce 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aMurder in literature.
650 0 _aSocial values in literature.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aCrime in popular culture
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aHomicide in literature.
650 0 _aChildren's literature, American
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aChildren's literature, English
_xHistory and criticism.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421408415/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c32259
_d32259