The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children: Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day - Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature

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.