Description: Advanced Copy HC American Horror Fiction : From Brockden Brown to Stephen King. This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on a genre which has remained popular for nearly two hundred years: American horror fiction. There are essays on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P.Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Robert Bloch, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King and Suzy McKee Charnas, covering the period from 1798 to 1983. Each essay deals with a major figure in the genre, from Gothic orginators to modern feminist reworkings. A variety of reading strategies are employed to interrogate these texts, with feminist and psychoanalytic approaches well represented. These essays illustrate the fact that modern literary theory can usefully be applied to any text or genre. Students of horror fiction seeking new readings, and readers interested in modern approaches to literature, will find this book useful and informative. The essays are all new, and have been specially written for Insights by leading academics.
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Book Title: American Horror Fiction : from Brockden Brown to Stephen King
Narrative Type: Fiction
Item Length: 8.5in
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
Publication Year: 1990
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Author: Brian Docherty
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Fiction
Topic: Horror & Supernatural, Science Fiction & Fantasy, General
Item Width: 5.5in
Item Weight: 8.9 Oz
Number of Pages: IX, 180 Pages
