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Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Anomalous Child
2. The Anomalous Body of the Child
3. Anomalous Investigations
Notes
Bibliography
Part I Historical Case Studies
Chapter One The Possession of John Starkie
1. Introduction
2. The Possession
3. The Magic
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Two The Naughty Little Children: The Paranormal and Teenagers
1. Introduction
2. Adolescence and Occultism
3. The Case of Jeanne
4. Parapsychology and the Teenager as a Focus Person for Recurrent Spontaneous Psycho-Kinesis
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Three I was A Real Teenage Werewolf: The Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Trial of Jean Grenier
1. ‘He Had Very Long and Bright Teeth’: Meeting the Werewolf
2. Hunting the Werewolf: The Initial Investigations
3. Trying the Werewolf: Criminal Trial Proceedings in Bordeaux
4. Bewitching the Werewolf: The Construction of the Witchcraft Narrative
5. ‘To the Depths of Hell’: The Theological Conundrum of Werewolfery
6. ‘To Lust after Human Flesh’: The Lessons of Lycanthropy
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Four Deviance on Display: The Feral and The Monstrous Child
1. Introduction and a First Panoramic View
2. Kaspar Hauser and His Kin: Taming the Wild Child
3. Staging Stigma
4. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part II Factual Anxiety in Fictional Representations: The Undead Child
Chapter Five Imprints: Forming and Tracing The Malevolent Ghost-Child
1. Introduction: From Folklore to Fiction
2. Spectral Ambivalence in Victorian/Edwardian Fiction
3. Crafting Corporeal Malevolence
3. Reprints: The Wrath of the Child
5. Mending the Rift
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Six Undead Role Models: Why The Zombie Child is Irresistible
1. Zombie Kids: From Hope to Dread
2. Night of the Living Dead and the Dawn of the Zombie Child in Film
3. The Walking Dead and the Rise of Zombie Ethics
4. Zombie Tykes or Empathy with the ‘Living Impaired’
5. Conclusion: From Trauma to Melotrauma
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Seven Children for Ever! Monsters of Eternal Youth and The Reification of Childhood
1. Introduction
2. A Child Is Born?
3. The Ghost Child
4. The Vampire Child
5. The Zombie Child
6. Never-Ending Story
Notes
Bibliography
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
1. Introduction
2. Monsters and Monstrous Children
3. Eli as a Post-developmental Child?
4. Beyond the Dionysian/Apollonian Child
5. Reclaiming the Streets: Resisting the Domestication of Childhood
6. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Nine Perverted Postmodern Pinocchios: Cannibalistic Vegetal-Children as Ecoterrorist Agents of The Maternal Imagination
1. From Early Modern Anxieties of Monstrous Maternal Imagination to Postmodern Fantasies of Ecoterrorist Vegetal Children
2. Timothy Green: The Altruistically Self-Consuming Plant Child
3. Little Otík: The Nightmarish Plant Child Devouring Its Cannibalistic Parents
4. Bioethical Dilemmas in Place of a Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Chapter Ten From The Monster To The Evil Sinthomosexual Child: Category Mixing, Temporality and Projection in Horror Movies
1. Introduction
2. From the Monstrous Child to the Evil Sinthomosexual Child in Vincenzo Natali’s Splice
3. The Sinthomosexual Child and Its Discontent: The Temporality of the Evil Child
4. Conclusion: The Projective Nature of the Evil Sinthomosexual Child
Notes
Bibliography
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
1. The Ambiguity of Twins and Spirit Children: An Introduction
2. The Birth of Many
3. Àbíkú: Those Born to Die
4. Twins, Monkeys and Disorder
5. Ritual Solutions for the Ambivalence of Twins
6. Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Twelve Doli Incapax: Examining The Social, Psychological, Biological and Legal Implications of Age-Related Assumptions of Criminal Responsibility
1. The Reality of Violence Committed by Children
2. Social Construction of Innocence, Childhood and Morality
3. Doli Incapax
4. Issues with Diagnosing Disorder or Illness in Children
5. Neurological Factors and Developmental Psychopathology
6. Discussion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Thirteen Black-Eyed Kids and The Child Archetype
1. Introduction
2. Traits of BEKS
3. Fairies, Aliens and Evil Children
4. Jungian Theory and the Archetypal Child
5. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Fourteen Indigo Children: Unexpected Consequences of A Process of Pathologization
1. Introduction
2. The Genesis of the Concept of Indigo Children and the History of Reception
3. Variations of the Concept
4. Forms of Organization
5. The Problem and the People Concerned
6. Reactions
7. A Process of Pathologization and Its Consequences
7.1 Esotericism as a Form of Scepticism
7.2 Strategies of Besonderung: Alternatives to the IC Concept
8. Final Thoughts
Notes
Bibliography
Notes On Contributors
Index

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The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis, presents important findings on socio-cultural representations and embodiments of the child and childhood. At the start of the 21st century, new anxieties constellate around the child and childhood, while older concerns have re-emerged, mutated, and grown stronger. But as historical analysis shows, they have been ever-present concerns. This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture. to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil.

The linkage between children and horror, or horror-full children, would seem an almost natural connection to make given its popularity in contemporary horror films and novels. However, the intersection between the two categories has a long history going back beyond the more obvious Gothic reimaginings of the 19th century with its under-age ghostly terrors revealing that the idea of the 'little horror' is seemingly an inherent demarcation within society between adults and those that are viewed as 'not adults'.

However, as seen in this timely and innovative collection, the anomalous child can also be seen in a positive light, and that resistance to easy categorization can be embraced by wider society as a force for change as can be seen in the recent example of a problematic child/adolescence, Greta Thunberg, a singularly focused individual, who is 16 years-old at the time of writing, has consistently refused to act as desired by the adult society around her in pursuit of gaining recognition of the urgent need for action in regard to environmental change. The book takes an inter- and multidisciplinary approach, drawing upon fields as diverse as sociology, psychology, film, and literature, to study the role of the child and childhood within contemporary Western culture and to see the ways in which each discipline intersects and influences the other, as well as viewing all this through a historical lens.