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The gothic in children's literature : haunting the borders / edited by Anna Jackson, Karen Coats, and Roderick McGillis.
Van Pelt Library PR830.C513 G67 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Children's literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, English.
- Children's stories, Commonwealth (English)--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, Commonwealth (English).
- Horror tales, English--History and criticism.
- Horror tales, English.
- Horror in literature.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Great Britain.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--English-speaking countries.
- English-speaking countries.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, [2008]
- Contents:
- The haunted nursery: 1764-1830 / Dale Townshend
- Cyberfiction and the gothic novel / Nadia Crandall
- Frightening and funny : humor in children's gothic fiction / Julie Cross
- Between horror, humor, and hope : Neil Gaiman and the psychic work of the gothic / Karen Coats
- On the gothic beach : a New Zealand reading of house and landscape in Margaret Mahy's The tricksters / Rose Lovell-Smith
- High winds and broken bridges : the gothic and the West Indies in twentieth-century British children's literature / Karen Sands-O'Connor
- The scary tale looks for a family : Gary Crew's Gothic hospital and Sonya Hartnett's The devil latch / Anna Smith
- Haunting the borders of sword and sorcery : Garth Nix's The seventh tower / Alice Mills
- Uncanny hauntings, canny children / Anna Jackson
- Hermione in the bathroom : the gothic, menarche, and female development in the Harry Potter series / June Cummins
- Making nightmares into new fairytales : goth comics as children's literature / Laurie N. Taylor
- Fantastic books : the gothic architecture of children's books / Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario
- The night side of nature : gothic spaces, fearful times / Roderick McGillis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415960366
- 0415960363
- OCLC:
- 77476485
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