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The Gothic Child (Hardcover)
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The Gothic Child (Hardcover)
Series: Palgrave Gothic
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The fascination with dark and deathly threatening spaces, with
looming towers and bloody deeds, is now accepted as characteristic
of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for children and
adolescents. Although this fascination dates back to the gothic
genre of the mid-18th century, at that time, the gothic genre was
not regarded as suitable for children or young persons in general.
However, many young authors' first literary attempts were linked to
the gothic genre, and child characters were employed in many of
their novels, thereby transforming the gothic into a domain with a
predilection for youth.
The aim of this book is to rediscover, present and analyze the
usage of children in the gothic genre, spanning a period of 60
years from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) to Charles
Robert Maturin's Albigenses (1824). The Gothic Child is almost
exclusively based on primary sources. It examines children and
childhood in a new light and updates the current definition of the
gothic genre by adding to it the archetype of the gothic child. The
book also contains analyses of selected films from the 20th and
21st centuries and links the major child-related themes and motifs
in them to the 18th and 19th-century representation of the
child.
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