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9780879727901

American Nightmares

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  • ISBN13:

    9780879727901

  • ISBN10:

    087972790X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-01-01
  • Publisher: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State

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Summary

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. 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.

Author Biography

Dale Bailey teaches at the University of Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Welcome to the Funhouse: Gothic and the Architecture of Subversion
1(14)
The Sentient House and the Ghostly Tradition: The Legacy of Poe and Hawthorne
15(10)
June Cleaver in the House of Horrors: Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
25(22)
``Too bad we can't stay, baby!'': The Horror at Amityville
47(20)
Middle-Class Nightmares: Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings and Anne Rivers Siddons's The House Next Door
67(24)
Unmanned by the American Dream: Stephen King's The Shining
91(16)
Ghosts in the Machine: The Future of the Haunted House Formula
107(8)
Notes 115(10)
Works Cited 125(12)
Index 137

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