American nightmares : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction /

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"When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition which has assumed a lasting role in American culture."--BOOK JACKET. "Yet, while the haunted house motif looms archetypal in the October country of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bailey, Dale
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Haunted houses in literature.
Popular literature > United States > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Ghost stories, American > History and criticism.
Horror tales, American > History and criticism.
Nightmares in literature.
Home in literature.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Maisons hantées dans la littérature.
Paralittérature > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Histoires de fantômes américaines > Histoire et critique.
Récits d'horreur américains > Histoire et critique.
Cauchemars dans la littérature.
Foyer dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Ghost stories, American
Haunted houses in literature
Home in literature
Horror tales, American
National characteristics, American, in literature
Nightmares in literature
Popular literature
Schauerroman
Unterhaltungsroman
Spuk > Motiv
Literatur
Albtraum
Spuk
Geisterglaube
Haus
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Welcome to the Funhouse: Gothic and the Architecture of Subversion
  • The Sentient House and the Ghostly Tradition: The Legacy of Poe and Hawthorne
  • June Cleaver in the House of Horrors: Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
  • "Too bad we can't stay, baby!": The Horror at Amityville
  • Middle-Class Nightmares: Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings and Anne Rivers Siddons's The House Next Door
  • Unmanned by the American Dream: Stephen King's The Shining
  • Ghosts in the Machine: The Future of the Haunted House Formula.

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