Alissa Burger is an associate professor of English and Director of Student Success at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionALISSA BURGER      Part One: Television, Difference, and Pushing Daisies1. Spectacular Collision/Collusion: Genre, “Quality,” and Contemporary DramaLORNA JOWETT      2. Pushing Daisies Away: Community Through IsolationMATT DAUPHIN      3. Often Invisible: Disability in Pushing DaisiesCHRISTINE GARBETT      Part Two: Philosophy and Pushing Daisies4. Consuming Grief and EatingLAURA ANH WILLIAMS      5. “Neophobic Ned Needs Neoteny”: Neuroses and Child’s PlayANN-GEE LEE      6. “Here Lies Dwight, Here Lies His Gun. He Was Bad, Now He’s Done”: On Justice and SchadenfreudeCHRISTINE ANGELA KNOOP      7. “It’s a Destiny Thing—Enjoy It!”: Free Will and Determinism in Bryan Fuller’s SeriesPATRICK GILL      Part Three: Gender and Pushing Daisies8. The Queer, Quirky World of Pushing DaisiesDANIEL FARR      9. Sweet Talk in The Pie Hole: Language, Intimacy, and Public SpaceTARA K. PARMITER      10. Fashion, Femininity, and the 1950s: Costume and Identity Negotiation in Pushing DaisiesALISSA BURGER      About the Contributors      Index

Alissa Burger is an associate professor of English and Director of Student Success at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionALISSA BURGER      Part One: Television, Difference, and Pushing Daisies1. Spectacular Collision/Collusion: Genre, “Quality,” and Contemporary DramaLORNA JOWETT      2. Pushing Daisies Away: Community Through IsolationMATT DAUPHIN      3. Often Invisible: Disability in Pushing DaisiesCHRISTINE GARBETT      Part Two: Philosophy and Pushing Daisies4. Consuming Grief and EatingLAURA ANH WILLIAMS      5. “Neophobic Ned Needs Neoteny”: Neuroses and Child’s PlayANN-GEE LEE      6. “Here Lies Dwight, Here Lies His Gun. He Was Bad, Now He’s Done”: On Justice and SchadenfreudeCHRISTINE ANGELA KNOOP      7. “It’s a Destiny Thing—Enjoy It!”: Free Will and Determinism in Bryan Fuller’s SeriesPATRICK GILL      Part Three: Gender and Pushing Daisies8. The Queer, Quirky World of Pushing DaisiesDANIEL FARR      9. Sweet Talk in The Pie Hole: Language, Intimacy, and Public SpaceTARA K. PARMITER      10. Fashion, Femininity, and the 1950s: Costume and Identity Negotiation in Pushing DaisiesALISSA BURGER      About the Contributors      Index

Alissa Burger is an associate professor of English and Director of Student Success at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionALISSA BURGER      Part One: Television, Difference, and Pushing Daisies1. Spectacular Collision/Collusion: Genre, “Quality,” and Contemporary DramaLORNA JOWETT      2. Pushing Daisies Away: Community Through IsolationMATT DAUPHIN      3. Often Invisible: Disability in Pushing DaisiesCHRISTINE GARBETT      Part Two: Philosophy and Pushing Daisies4. Consuming Grief and EatingLAURA ANH WILLIAMS      5. “Neophobic Ned Needs Neoteny”: Neuroses and Child’s PlayANN-GEE LEE      6. “Here Lies Dwight, Here Lies His Gun. He Was Bad, Now He’s Done”: On Justice and SchadenfreudeCHRISTINE ANGELA KNOOP      7. “It’s a Destiny Thing—Enjoy It!”: Free Will and Determinism in Bryan Fuller’s SeriesPATRICK GILL      Part Three: Gender and Pushing Daisies8. The Queer, Quirky World of Pushing DaisiesDANIEL FARR      9. Sweet Talk in The Pie Hole: Language, Intimacy, and Public SpaceTARA K. PARMITER      10. Fashion, Femininity, and the 1950s: Costume and Identity Negotiation in Pushing DaisiesALISSA BURGER      About the Contributors      Index