The Government of Disability in Dystopian Children’s Texts (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction: Worlds of Difference
	Disability in Literature, Film, and Television
	Texts for and About Children and Young Adults
	Discourse and Power
	Discipline and Bio-power
	Dystopia and Dis-topia
	Chapter Outline
	Bibliography
Chapter 1: Goblin-ology: Eugenics and Hysterisation in George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
	Victorian Discourses of the Body
	Eugenics and the Goblins
	The Hysterisation of Irene and Grandmother
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: “Lonely, tender, passionate heart”: Melancholy and Isolation in Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling Cloak (1875)
	Introduction
	Craik’s Non-fiction
	Disability Politics, Moral, and Confinement
	Sentimentality, Melancholy, and Eugenics
	Revolution and Double Closure
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Building Beasties: Disability, Imperialism, and Violence in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954)
	Introduction
	Lord of the Flies
	Civilisation
	Imperialism and Religious Discourse
	Death and Sacrifice
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: On the Fringes: John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids (1955) and Technologies of the Self
	Introduction
	Allegories and Faith-Based Politics
	Measuring Disability
	Policing, Surveillance, and Punishment
	Geography as Propaganda
	History as Propaganda
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: ‘A perversion of nature? How exciting!’: Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990), the Freak, the Monster, and the Limits of Inclusion
	Genre and Scripts
	The Freak in Edward Scissorhands
	The Limits to Social Inclusion in Edward Scissorhands
	The Monster in Edward Scissorhands
	Conclusion
Chapter 6: ‘Blind. Deaf. Disabled. Wheelchair’: Community, History and Resistance in Jane Stemp’s Waterbound (1995)
	Introduction
	Politics and Surveillance
	Histories
	Resistances
	Closure
Chapter 7: ‘This magic keeps me alive, but it’s making me crazy!’: Amputation, Madness, and Control in Adventure Time (2009–2018)
	Introduction
	Screening Disability in Adventure Time
	“I Don’t Feel Anything”: Finn, Trauma, and Prostheticisation
	“I’m Losing Myself”: The Ice King and ‘Madness’
	Conclusion
Chapter 8: “Loss is loss is loss”: Embodying the Family-as-Trauma in Julianna Baggott’s Pure (2012)
	Introduction
	Bodies and Power
	History as Disciplinary and Biopolitical Technique in Pure
	“I Wanted To Be Alive”: Trauma, Physical Disability, and Bodily Autonomy in Pure
	“Purity Is a Burden”: Resisting and Rejecting Purity
	Family-as-Trauma
	Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
	Legislation
Index