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      The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children

      The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children

      Essays on Anomalous Children from 1595 to the Present Day

      Edited by

      Simon Bacon and Leo Ruickbie

      Anthem Press

      An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company

       www.anthempress.com

      This edition first published in UK and USA 2020

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      © 2020 Simon Bacon and Leo Ruickbie editorial matter and selection;

      individual chapters © individual contributors

      The moral right of the authors has been asserted.

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above,

      no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into

      a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means

      (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise),

      without the prior written permission of both the copyright

      owner and the above publisher of this book.

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020940783

      ISBN-13: 978-1-78527-520-3 (Hbk)

      ISBN-10: 1-78527-520-8 (Hbk)

      This title is also available as an e-book.

      CONTENTS

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Simon Bacon and Leo Ruickbie
Part I Historical Case Studies
The Possession of John Starkie
Joyce Froome
The Naughty Little Children: The Paranormal and Teenagers
Renaud Evrard
Chapter Three I Was a Real Teenage Werewolf: The Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Trial of Jean Grenier
Leo Ruickbie
Chapter Four Deviance on Display: The Feral and the Monstrous Child
Gerd H. Hövelmann
Part II Factual Anxiety in Fictional Representations: The Undead Child
Chapter Five Imprints: Forming and Tracing the Malevolent Ghost-Child
Jen Baker
Chapter Six Undead Role Models: Why the Zombie Child Is Irresistible
Anthony Adams
Chapter Seven Children for Ever! Monsters of Eternal Youth and the Reification of Childhood
Simon Bacon
Part III Factual Anxiety in Fictional Representations: The Monstrous Child
Chapter Eight ‘Not a child. Not old. Not a boy. Not a girl’: Representing Childhood in Let the Right One In
Allison Moore
Chapter Nine Perverted Postmodern Pinocchios: Cannibalistic Vegetal-Children as Ecoterrorist Agents of the Maternal Imagination
Anna Kérchy
Chapter Ten From the Monster to the Evil Sinthomosexual Child: Category Mixing, Temporality and Projection in Horror Movies
Marc Démont
Part IV Cultural Categorization in the Past, Present and Possible Future
Chapter Eleven Evil Twins: Changing Perceptions of Twin Children and Witchcraft among Yoruba-Speaking People
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
Chapter Twelve Doli Incapax: Examining the Social, Psychological, Biological and Legal Implications of Age-Related Assumptions of Criminal Responsibility
Jacquelyn Bent and Theresa Porter
Chapter Thirteen Black-Eyed Kids and the Child Archetype
Brigid Burke
Chapter Fourteen Indigo Children: Unexpected Consequences of a Process of Pathologization
Gerhard Mayer and Anita Brutler
Notes on Contributors

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