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The government of disability in dystopian children's texts / Dylan Holdsworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holdsworth, Dylan, author.
- Series:
- Critical approaches to children's literature 2753-0833
- Critical approaches to children's literature, 2753-0833
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories--History and criticism.
- Children's stories.
- People with disabilities in literature.
- Dystopias in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 194 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Worlds of Difference
- Chapter 1 -Goblin-ology: Eugenics and hysterisation in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
- Chapter 2 -"Lonely, tender, passionate heart": Melancholy and Isolation in Dinah Mulock Craik's The Little Lame Prince and his Traveling Cloak (1875)
- Chapter 3 -Building Beasties: Disability, Imperialism and Violence in William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Chapter 4 -On the Fringes: John Wyndham's The Chrysalids (1955) and Technologies of the Self
- Chapter 5 -"A Perversion of Nature? How Exciting!": Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), the Freak, the Monster and the Limits of Inclusion
- Chapter 6 -"Blind. Deaf. Disabled. Wheelchair": Community, History and Resistance in Jane Stemp's Waterbound (1995)
- Chapter 7 -"This Magic Keeps Me Alive, but it's Making Me Crazy!": Amputation, Madness and Control in Adventure Time (2009-2018)
- Chapter 8 -"Loss is Loss is Loss": Embodying the Family-as-Trauma in Julianna Baggott's Pure (2012).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 21, 2024).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9783031520341
- 3031520343
- Publisher Number:
- 99996232980
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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