Taming the Naughty Monster Girls

✍ Scribed by Reed James

• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 335 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B07YLTHVG1

✦ Synopsis

Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapters -- 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;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.