Robert Cormier

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.

• Series Editor's PrefaceNotes on ContributorsIntroduction; A.E.GavinFade 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.HumphriesFascinated 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.CumminsMannerbund and Hitler-Jugend: Queer Perceptions of Nazis In and Beyond Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War ; H.BlackfordInducing Despair?: A Study of Robert Cormier's Young Adult Fiction; C.WalshFacing the Truth: Robert Cormier, His Readers, and 'Reality'; S.ClancyInteractive Texts and Active Readers: Robert Cormier's 'Adolescent Poetics' in the Light of Wolfgang Iser's Theory of Aesthetic Response; D.PolitisBibliography of Robert Cormier's Work and Suggested Further ReadingIndex.

'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