American Nightmares
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
087972790X
ISBN-13
9780879727901
Publisher
The Popular Press
Imprint
The Popular Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 30th, 1999
Print length
156 Pages
Weight
333 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
Ksh 3,650.00
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In 'American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction', scholar and fantasy writer Dale Bailey traces the motive from English gothic fiction through such luminaries as Poe and Hawthorne to Steven King and paperback potboilers of the present.
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 that has assumed a lasting role in American culture. "The House of Usher" and its literary progeny have not lacked for tenants in the century and a half since: writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Stephen King have taken rooms in the haunted houses of American fiction. Dale Bailey traces the haunted house tale from its origins in English gothic fiction to the paperback potboilers of the present, highlighting the unique significance of the house in the domestic, economic, and social ideologies of our nation. The author concludes that the haunted house has become a powerful and profoundly subversive symbol of everything that has gone nightmarishly awry in the American Dream.
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