Evil Children in the Popular Imagination

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Evil Children in the Popular Imagination is written by Karen J. Renner and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137599634 (ISBN 10) and 9781137599636 (ISBN 13).

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 “evil” child and adapts to changing historical circumstances and ideologies.