{"product_id":"children-and-childhood-in-the-works-of-stephen-king-9781793600127","title":"Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King’s works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent publications. King’s use of child characters within the framework of horror (or of horrific childhood) raises questions about adult expectations of children, childhood, the American family, child agency, and the nature of fear and terror for (or by) children. The ways in which King presents, complicates, challenges, or terrorizes children and notions of childhood provide a unique lens through which to examine American culture, including both adult and social anxieties about children and childhood across the decades of King’s works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Stephen King’s Fictional Children\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebbie Olson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1970s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 1 Degeneration through Violence and Stephen King’s Rage \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Karen J. Renner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 2 “Such a tragedy might have been averted”: Gothic Childhood, American Monstrosity, and the Male Gothic in Stephen King’s Carrie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Sarah Gray\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 3 The Children as Nemesis: a Reading of Stephen King’s “The Children of the Corn” and its Adaptations by Debaditya Mukhopadhyay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 4 Of “Pagan Devil-Children” and Monstrous Plants: Vegetal World, Human Enslavement, and Precarious Existence in “Children of the Corn” by Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 5 The Spectacle of Child-Suffering in Stephen King’s The Long Walk \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Joshua Garrison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1980s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 6 Monstrosity, Ethic of Care, and Moral Agency in Stephen King’s Firestarter \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Ingrid E. Castro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 7 Boys in The Body \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Jennifer Manthei\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 8 “Not if I see you first”: Playspace, Friendship, and Nostalgia in Stand By Me \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Shastri Akella\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 9 “Performing a kind of self-pyschoanalysis”: childhood revisited through writing (and reading) in The Breathing Method, Misery, Pet Sematary and Charlie the Choo-Choo. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Andy McCormack\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 10 “Animals, Innocence, and the Terr[or]tories in The Talisman”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Debbie Olson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 11 “They Were Not All Found”: Ecosystems of Child Maltreatment in Stephen King’s IT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Brennan Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 12 “You’ll Float Too”: King and the Death of Childhood \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby James M. Curtis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 13 “What an enormous act this is”: Children \u0026amp; Sexuality in Stephen King’s IT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Roxanne Harde\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1990s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 14 (Dis)Abling Dinah: Childhood Agency and the Allegory of the Cave in The Langoliers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Khara Lukancic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 15 Girls With Teeth: Fan Identity in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Katharine McCain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2000s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 16 Power, Vulnerability and Duality in Doctor Sleep \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Lauren Christie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCh. 17 Seeing and Believing as a Child in It and The Outsider \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Kristen Miller Hill \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042603729239,"sku":"9781793600127","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793600127.jpg?v=1750954825","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/children-and-childhood-in-the-works-of-stephen-king-9781793600127","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}