American Horror Fiction
From Brockden Brown to Stephen King
Published on 26. January 1990
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-333-46128-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Insights" brings contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas. Each contribution concentrates on a study of a particular work, author or genre in its artistic, historical and cultural context. This criticism on American horror fiction 1798-1983 offers critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay deals with a major figure in the genre from Gothic to modern feminist reworkings and aim to illustrate the fact that modern theory can usefully be applied to any text or genre. The essays discuss the work of Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P.Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Robert Bloch, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King and S.M.Charnas.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-46128-0 (9780333461280)
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Content
Horror the soul of the plot - an introduction to this volume, Brian Docherty; a darkness visible - the case of Charles Brockden Brown, A.Robert Lee; Poe - rituals of life and death, Robert Giddengs; this revolting graveyard of the universe - the horror fiction of H.P.Lovecraft; the evidence of things seen and unseen - William Faulkner's "Sanctuary", David Seed; Robert Bloch's "Psycho" - some pathological contexts, David Punter; a feminist approach to Patricia Highsmith's novels, Odette L'Henry Evans; Shirley Jackson and the reproduction of mothering - "The Haunting of Hill House" and contemporary psychoanalytic theory, Judie Newman; Stephen King - powers of horror, Clare Hanson; de-fanging the vampire - S.M.Charnas' "The Vampire Tapestry" as subversive horror fiction, Anne Cranny-Francis.