href="#ulink_f2b185ad-e5ea-5832-b3eb-486dfd036bd1">10Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concept of Pollution and Taboo (New York: Routledge, [1966] 2002).
11Andrew O’Malley, The Making of the Modern Child: Children’s Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century (New York: Routledge, 2003), 12.
12Michele Erina Doyle and Mark K. Smith, ‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Education’, Encyclopaedia of Informal Education, 7 January 2013, accessed 13 October 2019, http://infed.org/mobi/jean-jacques-rousseau-on-nature-wholeness-and-education/.
13Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan: Or the Impossibility of Children’s Fiction (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), 16–17.
14Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein, trans. Ross Guberman (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 234.
15Kincaid, Child-Loving, 12.
16It is also worth noting here that these considerations similarly essentialize children and the child by referring to them as an amorphous or homogenous group rather than individuals, and this is something that needs to be borne in mind throughout the present study. That said, one can argue that the term ‘society’ is equally as indiscriminate and unarticulated, which can either qualify using both terms or totally negate any notions of equivalence. At present, we will concur with the former, not least because many studies have used these categories to examine the ways each affects the other.
17David Buckingham, The Material Child: Growing Up in Consumer Culture (Cambridge: Polity, 2011), 1.
18David Buckingham, After the Death of Childhood: Growing Up in the Age of Electronic Media (Cambridge: Polity, 2000), 5.
19David Buckingham and Rebekah Willett, Digital Generations: Children, Young People, and the New Media (New York: Routledge, 2013), 1.
20Bex Lewix, Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst (Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2014), 23.
21Georgieva, The Gothic Child, 87.
22Kelly Hurley, The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 3.
23Ibid, 4.
24Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. and foreword by Brian Massumi (London: Continuum, [1988] 2004), 303. Not surprisingly, perhaps, they also describe ‘becoming-child’ at the same time.
25Douglas, Purity and Danger.
26Anonymous, The Most Strange and Admirable Discouerie of the Three Witches of Warboys Arraigned, Conuicted, and Executed at the Last Assises at Huntington, for the Bewitching of the Fiue Daughters of Robert Throckmorton Esquire, and Other Persons (rpt. BiblioBazaar, [1593] 2010).
27See p. x in Chapter 2 of this volume.
28See p. x in Chapter 3 of this volume.
29See p. x in Chapter 3 of this volume.
30See p. x in Chapter 4 of this volume.
31Kincaid, Child-Loving, 8.
32The word ‘monster’ comes from the Latin monstrum, which in Late Middle English meant ‘portent or monster’, and from the French monere, ‘warn’. Taken from Oxford Dictionaries, viewed on 26 June 2015, http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/monster.
33Not unlike those mentioned by Michel Foucault in The Spectacle of the Scaffold: The Body beyond All Possible Pain, trans. Alan Sheridan (London: Penguin Books, 1977).
34See p. x in Chapter 4 of this volume.
35See p. x in Chapter 5 of this volume..
36See p. x in Chapter 5 of this volume.
37Night of the Living Dead, dir. George A. Romero (New York: Walter Reade Organisation, 1968).
38See p. x in Chapter 6 of this volume.
39See p. x in Chapter 7 of this volume.
40See p. x in Chapter 7 of this volume.
41See p. x in Chapter 8 of this volume.
42See p. x in Chapter 9 of this volume. Margrit Shildrick, Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self (London: Sage, 2002), 30.
43See p. x in Chapter 10 of this volume.
44See p. x in Chapter 11 of this volume.
45See p. x in Chapter 12 of this volume.
46It is interesting to note that the anxiety around Black-Eyed Kids coincided with a shift in popular culture over the representation of demonic possession. In the late twentieth century, possession by supernatural or alien forces was often represented by the victim having white eyes
