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پدید آورنده
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رده
PS374.H33 B35 1999
PS374
.
H33
B35
1999
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
0879727896
087972790X
9780879727895
9780879727901
dltt
American nightmares :
[Book]
the haunted house formula in American popular fiction /
Dale Bailey
145 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-135) and index
"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. In the hands of the best gothic writers, Bailey concludes, the haunted house has become a powerful and profoundly subversive symbol of everything that has gone nightmarishly awry in the American Dream."--Jacket
"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 which has assumed a lasting role in American culture."--BOOK JACKET. "Yet, while the haunted house motif looms archetypal in the October country of the American mind, literary critics have rarely inquired what it means or why it has endured. These are the questions at the heart of Dale Bailey's American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction."--Jacket
American nightmares.
American fiction-- History and criticism
Ghost stories, American-- History and criticism
Haunted houses in literature
Home in literature
Horror tales, American-- History and criticism
National characteristics, American, in literature
Nightmares in literature
Popular literature-- United States-- History and criticism
813
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009/355
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PS374
.
H33
B35
1999
Bailey, Dale
20160712063944.0
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
