Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Flegel, Monica (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Parkes, Christopher (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Subjects: Children's literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; America-Literatures.; Children's Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; North American Literature.

This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency. Examining representations of cruel young people in popular texts and popular culture, the collected essays demonstrate how gender,...