Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Jackson, Anna, 1967-
2. Coats, Karen, 1963-
3. McGillis, Roderick.

Description

1. vii, 254 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Children's literature and culture

Subject

1. Children's stories, Commonwealth (English) > History and criticism
2. Horror tales, English > History and criticism
3. Gothic revival (Literature) > English-speaking countries
4. Horror in literature
5. Children's stories, English > History and criticism
6. Gothic revival (Literature) > Great Britain

Contents

1. The haunted nursery: 1764-1830 / Dale Townshend -- Cyberfiction and the gothic novel / Nadia Crandall -- Frightening and funny : humor in children's gothic fiction / Julie Cross -- Between horror, humor, and hope : Neil Gaiman and the psychic work of the gothic / Karen Coats -- On the gothic beach : a New Zealand reading of house and landscape in Margaret Mahy's The tricksters / Rose Lovell-Smith -- High winds and broken bridges : the gothic and the West Indies in twentieth-century British children's literature / Karen Sands-O'Connor -- The scary tale looks for a family : Gary Crew's Gothic hospital and Sonya Hartnett's The devil latch / Anna Smith -- Haunting the borders of sword and sorcery : Garth Nix's The seventh tower / Alice Mills -- Uncanny hauntings, canny children / Anna Jackson -- Hermione in the bathroom : the gothic, menarche, and female development in the Harry Potter series / June Cummins -- Making nightmares into new fairytales : goth comics as children's literature / Laurie N. Taylor -- Fantastic books : the gothic architecture of children's books / Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario -- The night side of nature : gothic spaces, fearful times / Roderick McGillis.

Call number

1. JFE 07-6549

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. The gothic in children's literature : haunting the borders / edited by Anna Jackson, Karen Coats, and Roderick McGillis.

Imprint

1. New York : Routledge, c2008.

Series

1. Children's literature and culture

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

Added author

1. Jackson, Anna, 1967-
2. Coats, Karen, 1963-
3. McGillis, Roderick.

LCCN

1. 2006101148

ISBN

1. 9780415960366 (hardback : alk. paper)
2. 0415960363 (hardback : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 07-6549