Nursery Realms : Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

by Westfahl, Gary; Slusser, George Edgar; Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (15th : 1993 : Riverside, Calif.)

• ISBN13: 9780820320953
• ISBN10: 0820320951
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Author Biography

Gary Westfahl teaches at the University of California, Riverside. George Slusser is a professor of comparative literature and director of the Eaton Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Introduction: Return to Innocence	ix
Gary Westfahl
PART 1 FANTASTIC CHILDREN: OVERVIEWS AND CASE STUDIES	3	(70)
Infant Joys: The Pleasures of Disempowerment in Fantasy and Science Fiction	3	(17)
Eric S. Rabkin
The Humpty Dumpty Effect, or Was the Old Egg Really All It Was Cracked Up to Be: Context and Coming of Age in Science fiction and fantasy	20	(9)
Frances Deutsch Louis
Narrative Users of Little Jewish Girls in Science fiction and Fantasy Stories: Mediating Between Civilization and Its Own Savagery	29	(19)
Susan Kray
The Triumph of Teen-Prop: Terminator II and the End of History	48	(25)
Gary Kern
PART 2 THE CHILDREN OF SCIENCE FICTION	73	(58)
The forever Child: Ender's Game and the Mythic Universe of Science fiction	73	(18)
George Slusser
The Child as Alien	91	(9)
Joseph D. Miller
Baby's Next Step: Uberkinder and the Burden of the future	100	(11)
Howard V. Hendrix
E.T. as Fairy Tale	111	(20)
Andrew Gordon
PART 3 THE CHILDREN OF FANTAST AND HORROR	131	(80)
Child Vision in the Fantasy of George MacDonald	131	(11)
Gay Barton
If Not Today, Then Tomorrow: Fact, faith, and Fantasy in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Autobiographical Writings	142	(8)
Alida Allison
A Real-World Source for the "Little People": A Comparison of Fairies to Individuals with Williams Syndrome	150	(11)
Howard N. Lenhoff
Coming of Age in Fantasyland: The Self-Parenting Child in Walt Disney Animated Films	161	(10)
Lynne Lundquist
Gary Westfahl
Nasty Boys, Feminine Longing, and Mourning the Mother in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Anne Rice's Be Witching Hour	171	(14)
Stephanie Barbe Hammer
Unsealing Sense in The Turn of the Screw	185	(15)
Susan J. Navarette
Getting Things in the Right Order: Stephen King's The Shining, The Stand, and It	200	(11)
Bud Foote
Contributors	211	(2)
Index	213