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Front Matter
1. The Social Function of Child Cruelty
Part I. Early Exemplars of the Cruel Child
2. “This Sport of Tormenting”: Cruel Children and Their Animals in British Literature, 1750–1800
3. Innocent Cruelty and the Love of Beauty in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales
4. Anne Is Angry: Female Beauty and the Transformative Power of Cruelty in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables
Part II. Bullying and Its Uses
5. Old-School Bullies at Hogwarts: The Pre-Victorian Roots of J. K. Rowling’s Depiction of Child-on-Child Violence
6. Bullies, the Bullied and Bullying Narratives in Contemporary Fiction
7. Murderous Misfits and Misguided Mentors in Rohan O’Grady’s Let’s Kill Uncle
Part III. Child Killers and Child Victims
8. Exceptional and Destructive: The Dangerous Child and the Atom Bomb in Postwar Science Fiction
9. “Tag … You’re It”: Cold War Comics and the Performance of Boyhood and Criminality
10. “Child Psychopath” Films of the 1980s and 1990s
11. A “Voodoo Doll in Diapers”: Deconstructing the Cruel Child in Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)
Part IV. Cruelty and Child Agency
12. “I Want to Die as Myself”: Young Adult Dystopias, Cruelty, and Resistance
13. “Kindness in a Cruel World”: The Formation of Agentic Non-heteronormative Identity in Contemporary YA Fictions
14. Camping the Killer Child: The Queer Humor of William March’s The Bad Seed on Page, Stage, and Screen
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