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The gothic in children's literature : haunting the borders

Title
The gothic in children's literature : haunting the borders / edited by Anna Jackson, Karen Coats, and Roderick McGillis.
Publication
New York : Routledge, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Jackson, Anna, 1967-
  • Coats, Karen, 1963-
  • McGillis, Roderick.
Description
vii, 254 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Children's literature and culture
Subject
  • Children's stories, English > History and criticism
  • Children's stories, Commonwealth (English) > History and criticism
  • Horror tales, English > History and criticism
  • Horror in literature
  • Gothic revival (Literature) > Great Britain
  • Gothic revival (Literature) > English-speaking countries
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 07-6549
ISBN
  • 9780415960366 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415960363 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006101148
OCLC
  • 77476485
  • vendorOCM77476485
Title
The gothic in children's literature : haunting the borders / edited by Anna Jackson, Karen Coats, and Roderick McGillis.
Imprint
New York : Routledge, c2008.
Series
Children's literature and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author
Jackson, Anna, 1967-
Coats, Karen, 1963-
McGillis, Roderick.
Research Call Number
JFE 07-6549
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