The Purloined Child: American Identity and Representations of Childhood in American Literature 1851-2000
40,95 zł
Brutto
Zofia Kolbuszewska
ISBN: 978-83-7363-588-3
Stron: 274
Format: B5
Rok wydania: 2007
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter I:
Haunted Domesticity: Dead Children in the Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wilkins Freeman and Ellen Glasgow
Chapter II:
The Child, the Mirror(s) and Passing: Aporias of "Optic White" and "Race" as Performance in Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson
Chapter III:
Purloined Innocence, "Nothing to Whack" and Catacombs: Children, Ghosts and the Chronotope in The Turn of the Screw and "Accursed Inhabitants Of The House Of Bly"
Chapter IV:
Immortalizing the (Shattered) Arcadia of Childhood: American Suburbia and Disrupted Narratives of Domesticity
Chapter V:
Horrific Pregnancies and Monstrous Progeny: Figuring Anxiety about the Unknown
Chapter VI:
The Child and History in Contemporary Horror Literature: Stasis vs. Individuation in Stephen King's The Shining and Ann Rice's Interview with the Vampire
Chapter VII:
Between Remembered Futurity and Anticipated Past: The (Neo)Romantic Child, American National Narrative, Postmodern Apocalypse and Phantom Community
Chapter VIII:
The Little Man Who Isn't There, the Demon Child, and Child Abduction: The Uncanny, the Abject, and the Discourse of Waste in Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison and Toni Cade Bambara
Chapter IX:
Edward Gorey's Horror Alphabet, Beastly Babies and Hapless Children
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index of Names
Subject Index
Streszczenie
ISBN: 978-83-7363-588-3
Stron: 274
Format: B5
Rok wydania: 2007
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter I:
Haunted Domesticity: Dead Children in the Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wilkins Freeman and Ellen Glasgow
Chapter II:
The Child, the Mirror(s) and Passing: Aporias of "Optic White" and "Race" as Performance in Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson
Chapter III:
Purloined Innocence, "Nothing to Whack" and Catacombs: Children, Ghosts and the Chronotope in The Turn of the Screw and "Accursed Inhabitants Of The House Of Bly"
Chapter IV:
Immortalizing the (Shattered) Arcadia of Childhood: American Suburbia and Disrupted Narratives of Domesticity
Chapter V:
Horrific Pregnancies and Monstrous Progeny: Figuring Anxiety about the Unknown
Chapter VI:
The Child and History in Contemporary Horror Literature: Stasis vs. Individuation in Stephen King's The Shining and Ann Rice's Interview with the Vampire
Chapter VII:
Between Remembered Futurity and Anticipated Past: The (Neo)Romantic Child, American National Narrative, Postmodern Apocalypse and Phantom Community
Chapter VIII:
The Little Man Who Isn't There, the Demon Child, and Child Abduction: The Uncanny, the Abject, and the Discourse of Waste in Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison and Toni Cade Bambara
Chapter IX:
Edward Gorey's Horror Alphabet, Beastly Babies and Hapless Children
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index of Names
Subject Index
Streszczenie
1040