Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.E.Gavin Fade to Black: Adolescent Invisibility in the Works of Robert Cormier; K.Huenemann 'So many disguises': Questions of Identity in Robert Cormier's After the First Death and Heroes ; A.F.Humphries Fascinated by Evil: Robert Cormier as a Catholic Novelist; P.Pinsent 'Nobody out of context': Representations of Child Corruption in Robert Cormier's Crime Novels; S.Ciocia 'You have to outlast them': Bullying in The Chocolate War and Beyond the Chocolate War ; A.Cummins Mannerbund and Hitler-Jugend: Queer Perceptions of Nazis In and Beyond Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War ; H.Blackford Inducing Despair?: A Study of Robert Cormier's Young Adult Fiction; C.Walsh Facing the Truth: Robert Cormier, His Readers, and 'Reality'; S.Clancy Interactive Texts and Active Readers: Robert Cormier's 'Adolescent Poetics' in the Light of Wolfgang Iser's Theory of Aesthetic Response; D.Politis Bibliography of Robert Cormier's Work and Suggested Further Reading Index.

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Offers diverse perspectives on Cormier's oeuvre and gives the reader many ways into his work.' - Janet Kaufman, University of Utah, USA 'The various essays work successfully together to provide the reader with a wide range of critical approaches to diverse texts within Cormier's oeuvre.' - Elizabeth Thiel, University of Roehampton, UK

About the Author

ADRIENNE E. GAVIN is Professor of English Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is the co-editor of Mystery in Children's Literature (2001) and Childhood in Edwardian Fiction (2009), both of which are published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Reviews

'Offers diverse perspectives on Cormier's oeuvre and gives the reader many ways into his work.' - Janet Kaufman, University of Utah, USA 'The various essays work successfully together to provide the reader with a wide range of critical approaches to diverse texts within Cormier's oeuvre.' - Elizabeth Thiel, University of Roehampton, UK