American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction
ISBN-13:
9780879727895
ISBN-10:
0879727896
Edition:
1
Author:
Dale Bailey
Publication date:
1999
Publisher:
Popular Press 1
Format:
Hardcover
156 pages
Category:
Popular Culture
,
Social Sciences
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ISBN-13:
9780879727895
ISBN-10:
0879727896
Edition:
1
Author:
Dale Bailey
Publication date:
1999
Publisher:
Popular Press 1
Format:
Hardcover
156 pages
Category:
Popular Culture
,
Social Sciences
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American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction (ISBN-13: 9780879727895 and ISBN-10: 0879727896), written by authors
Dale Bailey, was published by Popular Press 1 in 1999.
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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.
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