Download e-book for iPad: The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child: Fantasy, by Amy Billone

By Amy Billone

This publication investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of kid's Literature, either within the Harry Potter sequence and in different works that experience reached unheard of degrees of renowned luck at the present time. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Lewis Carroll's Alice and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Billone is going directly to research the hot resurrection of Alice in Tim Burton's Alice, and of Peter Pan in Michael Jackson and in James Bond. vacationing traits that experience emerged because the Harry Potter sequence ended, the booklet experiences revisions of the dream-child in texts and flicks that experience encouraged mass fandom within the twenty-first century: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, E.L. James's 50 colors of Grey and Suzanne Collins's The starvation Games. the amount argues that the 21st-century wish to in attaining dream-states in dating to everlasting formative years effects from the best way that goals supply a method of understanding the glorious but alarming danger of escaping from time. This present identity with the dream-child stems from the specter of political unrest and financial and environmental cave in in addition to from the simultaneous technophilia and technophobia of a tradition immersed within the breathless revolution of the electronic age. This publication not just explores how the dream-child from the earlier has back to mirror misgivings approximately imagined dystopian futures but in addition finds how the rebirth of the dream-child opens up chances for brand spanking new narratives the place chuffed endings stay doable opposed to all odds. it's going to entice students in a wide selection of fields together with adolescence reviews, Children's/YA Literature, Cinema reviews, Cultural experiences, Cyberculture, Gender stories, Queer stories, Gothic experiences, New Media, and renowned Culture.

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