04133nam 2200817 a 450 991095939730332120240418054517.09780299268732029926873X97812839761831283976188(CKB)2550000000996604(OCoLC)825768034(CaPaEBR)ebrary10649064(SSID)ssj0000819428(PQKBManifestationID)11457766(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819428(PQKBWorkID)10856415(PQKB)10445870(OCoLC)300605965(MdBmJHUP)muse25675(Au-PeEL)EBL3445279(CaPaEBR)ebr10649064(CaONFJC)MIL428868(OCoLC)927484049(MiAaPQ)EBC3445279(Perlego)4386244(EXLCZ)99255000000099660419981027d1999 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAmerican nightmares the haunted house formula in American popular fiction /Dale Bailey1st ed.Bowling Green, Ohio Bowling Green State University Popular Press University of Wisconsin Pressc19991 online resource (157 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780879727895 0879727896 9780879727901 087972790X Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-135) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Welcome to the Funhouse: Gothic and the Architecture of Subversion -- 2. The Sentient House and the Ghostly Tradition: The Legacy of Poe and Hawthorne -- 3. June Cleaver in the House of Horrors: Shirley Jackson's 'The Haunting of Hill House' -- 4. "Too bad we can't stay, baby!": The Horror at Amityville -- 5. Middle-Class Nightmares: Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings and Anne Rivers Siddons's 'The House Next Door' -- 6. Unmanned by the American Dream: Stephen King's 'The Shining' -- 7. Ghosts in the Machine: The Future of the Haunted House Formula -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.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. American fictionHistory and criticismHaunted houses in literaturePopular literatureUnited StatesHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureGhost stories, AmericanHistory and criticismHorror tales, AmericanHistory and criticismNightmares in literatureHome in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Haunted houses in literature.Popular literatureHistory and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.Ghost stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.Horror tales, AmericanHistory and criticism.Nightmares in literature.Home in literature.813.009/355Bailey Dale1806611MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910959397303321American nightmares4355890UNINA