American nightmares [[electronic resource] ] : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction / / Dale Bailey

• Autore: Bailey Dale
• Pubblicazione: Bowling Green, Ohio, : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.009/355
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - History and criticism; Haunted houses in literature; Popular literature - United States - History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Ghost stories, American - History and criticism; Horror tales, American - History and criticism; Nightmares in literature; Home in literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-135) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: American nightmares
• ISBN: 0-299-26873-X; 1-283-97618-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818141003321
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