
Fear Itself
Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture
Nancy Lusignan Schultz(Author)
Purdue University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. September 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
456 pages
978-1-55753-115-5 (ISBN)
Description
This collection contains twenty-seven new essays on American paranoia drawn from a range of disciplines, including American studies, film studies, history, literature, religious studies, and sociology. It's arranged by topic and largely in chronological order, explore manifestations of fear throughout the history of the United States. Approaching the topic from a variety of perspectives and methodologies, contributors to the collection explore theoretical constructions of fear, religious intolerance in early American culture, racial discrimination, literary expressions of paranoia, and Cold War anxieties, as well as phobias of the modern age and about the future. Together, these essays cover topics from nearly every period of U.S. history, offering a remarkable picture of the "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror" that Roosevelt discerned as such a paralyzing threat on the eve of the Second World War, and which continues to haunt American culture even as we shape our perceptions of the future.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
West Lafayette
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index, illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55753-115-5 (9781557531155)
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