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1. The Social Function of Child Cruelty; Monica Flegel and Christopher Parkes.- 2. ?gThis Sport of Tormenting?h: Cruel Children and their Animals in British Literature, 1750-1800; Heather Ladd.- 3. Innocent Cruelty and the Love of Beauty in Oscar Wilde?fs Fairy Tales; Monica Flegel.- 4. Anne is Angry: Female Beauty and the Transformative Power of Cruelty in L. M. Montgomery?fs Anne of Green Gables; Christopher Parkes.- 5. Old-School Bullies at Hogwarts: The Pre-Victorian Roots of J.K. Rowling?fs Depiction of Child-on-child Violence; Katharine Kittredge and Carolyn Rennie.- 6. Bullies, the Bullied and Bullying Narratives in Contemporary Fiction; Clare Bradford and Lara Hedberg.- 7. Murderous Misfits and Misguided Mentors in Rohan O?fGrady?fs Let?fs Kill Uncle; Rebecca Brown.- 8. Exceptional and Destructive: The Dangerous Child and the Atom Bomb in Postwar Science Fiction; Kristen Gregory.- 9. ?gTag . . . You?fre It?h: Cold War Comics and the Performance of Boyhood and Criminality; Hans Staats.- 10. ?gChild Psychopath?h Films of the 1980s and 1990s; Karen J. Renner.- 11. A ?gVoodoo Doll in Diapers?h: Deconstructing the Cruel Child in Lionel Shriver?fs We Need to Talk about Kevin (2003); Sandra Dinter.- 12. ?gI Want to Die as Myself?h: Young Adult Dystopias, Cruelty, and Resistance; Carrie Hintz.- 13. Kindness in a Cruel World: The Formation of Agentic Non-Heteronormative Identity in Contemporary YA Fictions; Victorian Flanagan.- 14. Camping the Killer Child: The Queer Humor of William March?fs The Bad Seed on Page, Stage, and Screen; Tison Pugh.