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Gifted Children,Ray Bradbury’s “The Small Assassin” (1946) and “The Veldt” (1950) imagine the dangers children would pose if they had power before they learned moral restraint whereas Jerome Bixby’s “It’s a . Life” (1953) investigates the dangers of permissive parenting. Later texts, like the multiple versions of .

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Changelings,never was a child or never will be one again. Changelings disturb because they directly confront our assumptions about children being innocent and vulnerable as merely that—assumptions. However, because the changeling only looks like a child but is actually something very different, we can excuse an

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38117-2lar linked a mother’s emotions and experiences to her child’s malformations. Monstrous birth narratives from the 1960s–1980s continued the tradition of maternal impression but also indicted fatherhood and social problems. Later texts, however, have returned to a form of maternal impression that sees

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Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century,stories generated in the UK and the USA, ghost children are as psychologically unique in death as they were in life—and often fixed in the same stage of development as they were when they passed. While some ghost children have benign or even benevolent purposes, others are victims of abuse who deman

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