Political Anxiety in Golden Age Children's Classics and Their Contemporary Adaptations

As striking, counter-intuitive and distasteful as the combination of children and anxiety may seem, some of the most popular children''s classics abound in depictions of traumatic relationships, bloody wars and helpless heroes. This book draws on Freudian and Lacanian anxiety models to investigate the psychological and political significance of this curious juxtaposition, as it stands out in Golde...