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American horror fiction : from Brockden Brown to Stephen King / edited by Brian Docherty.
- Title
- American horror fiction : from Brockden Brown to Stephen King / edited by Brian Docherty.
- Publication
- Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1990.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Docherty, Brian.
- Description
- ix, 180 pages; 22 cm
- Series Statement
- Insights
- Uniform Title
- Insights.
- Subjects
- Geschichte 1800-1989
- Aufsatzsammlung
- USA
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- King, Stephen, 1947- > Criticism and interpretation
- Schauerroman
- Horror tales, American > History and criticism
- Geschichte 1798-1983
- Horrorliteratur
- Horrorroman
- Horror stories in English > American writers - Critical studies
- Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 > Criticism and interpretation
- American fiction > Themes, motives
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-177) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: horror the soul of the plot / Brian Docherty -- Darkness visible: the case of Charles Brockden / A. Robert Lee -- Revolting graveyard of the universe: the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft -- Evidence of things seen and unseen: William Faulkner's 'Sanctuary' / David Seed -- Robert Bloch's 'Psycho': some pathological contexts / David Punter -- Feminist approach to Patricia Highsmith's fiction ? / Odette L'Henry Evans -- Shirley Jackson and the reproduction of mothering: 'The haunting of Hill House' / Judie Newman -- Stephen King: powers of horror / Clare Hanson -- De-fanging the vampire: S.M. Charnas's 'The vampire as subversive horror fiction' / Anne Cranny-Francis.
- ISBN
- 0333461282
- 0333461290
- 9780333461280
- 9780333461297
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries