This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King's works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent publications. King's use of child characters within the framework of horror (or of horrific childhood) raises questions about adult expectations of children, childhood, the American family, child agency, and the nature of fear and terror for (or by) children. The ways in which King presents, complicates, challenges, or terrorizes children and notions of childhood provide a unique lens through which to…mehr
This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King's works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent publications. King's use of child characters within the framework of horror (or of horrific childhood) raises questions about adult expectations of children, childhood, the American family, child agency, and the nature of fear and terror for (or by) children. The ways in which King presents, complicates, challenges, or terrorizes children and notions of childhood provide a unique lens through which to examine American culture, including both adult and social anxieties about children and childhood across the decades of King's works.
Debbie Olson is associate professor of English at Missouri Valley College.
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Introduction: Stephen King's Fictional Children Debbie Olson 1970s Ch. 1 Degeneration through Violence and Stephen King's Rage by Karen J. Renner Ch. 2 "Such a tragedy might have been averted": Gothic Childhood, American Monstrosity, and the Male Gothic in Stephen King's Carrie by Sarah Gray Ch. 3 The Children as Nemesis: a Reading of Stephen King's "The Children of the Corn" and its Adaptations by Debaditya Mukhopadhyay Ch. 4 Of "Pagan Devil-Children" and Monstrous Plants: Vegetal World, Human Enslavement, and Precarious Existence in "Children of the Corn" by Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad Ch. 5 The Spectacle of Child-Suffering in Stephen King's The Long Walk by Joshua Garrison 1980s Ch. 6 Monstrosity, Ethic of Care, and Moral Agency in Stephen King's Firestarter by Ingrid E. Castro Ch. 7 Boys in The Body by Jennifer Manthei Ch. 8 "Not if I see you first": Playspace, Friendship, and Nostalgia in Stand By Me by Shastri Akella Ch. 9 "Performing a kind of self-pyschoanalysis": childhoo
Introduction: Stephen King's Fictional Children Debbie Olson 1970s Ch. 1 Degeneration through Violence and Stephen King's Rage by Karen J. Renner Ch. 2 "Such a tragedy might have been averted": Gothic Childhood, American Monstrosity, and the Male Gothic in Stephen King's Carrie by Sarah Gray Ch. 3 The Children as Nemesis: a Reading of Stephen King's "The Children of the Corn" and its Adaptations by Debaditya Mukhopadhyay Ch. 4 Of "Pagan Devil-Children" and Monstrous Plants: Vegetal World, Human Enslavement, and Precarious Existence in "Children of the Corn" by Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad Ch. 5 The Spectacle of Child-Suffering in Stephen King's The Long Walk by Joshua Garrison 1980s Ch. 6 Monstrosity, Ethic of Care, and Moral Agency in Stephen King's Firestarter by Ingrid E. Castro Ch. 7 Boys in The Body by Jennifer Manthei Ch. 8 "Not if I see you first": Playspace, Friendship, and Nostalgia in Stand By Me by Shastri Akella Ch. 9 "Performing a kind of self-pyschoanalysis": childhoo
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