Evil Children in the Popular Imagination

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity. From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns. In this book, Renner illustrates how each subtype offers a different explanation for the problem of the ôevilö child and adapts to changing historical circumstances and ideologies.

• | Author: Karen Renner
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1137603216
• | ISBN-13: 9781137603210