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02609aam a2200397 a 4500 001 9C37F670CCDC11E29536ECE2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130604010126 008 120702s2013 mdu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012025276 020 $a 1421408406 (hdbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781421408408 (hdbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)801051075 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BWX $d BDX $d FCM $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PN1009.5.H66 $b A23 2013 082 00 $a 820.9/9282 $2 23 100 1 $a Abate, Michelle Ann, $d 1975- 245 10 $a Bloody murder : $b the homicide tradition in children's literature / $c Michelle Ann Abate. 260 $a Baltimore, Md. : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2013. 300 $a x, 266 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Once upon a crime: homicide in American culture and popular children's literature from "Bluebeard" to Harry Potter -- "You must kill her and bring me her lungs and liver as proof": "Snow White" and the fact as well as fantasy of filicide -- "The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties... 'off with his head!' ": Alice's adventures in Wonderland and the anti-gallows movement -- "Swarthy, sun-tanned, villainous looking fellows": Tarzan of the apes and criminal anthropology -- -- "A sixth sense seemed to tell her that she had encountered something unusual": psychic sleuthing in the Nancy Drew mystery series -- "How'd you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?": juvenile delinquency, teenage killers and a pulp aesthetic in the Outsiders -- "My job is... to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury": confronting the dramatization-and demonization-of murder in Walter Dean Myers' monster -- Epilogue: "Just because you don't have a pulse doesn't mean you can't be perky": my so-called death, young adult zombie fiction and murder in the posthuman age. 650 0 $a Children's literature, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Children's literature, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Homicide in literature. 650 0 $a Crime in popular culture $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Social values in literature. 650 0 $a Murder in literature. 941 $a 4 952 $l UVAX975 $d 20240215013819.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718091129.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180119015003.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826070205.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9C37F670CCDC11E29536ECE2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search