American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King [Hardcover]

Brian Docherty (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 180 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; First US Edition edition (February 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312032234
• ISBN-13: 978-0312032234
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,574,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars From the cover ..., April 25, 2010

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This review is from: American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King (Hardcover)

This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on a genre which has remained popular for nearly two hundred years: American horror fiction. There are essays on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Robert Bloch, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King and Suzy McKee Charnas, covering the period from 1798 to 1983.

Each essay deals with a major figure in the genre, from Gothic originators to modern feminist reworkings. A variety of reading strategies are employed to interrogate these texts, with feminist and psychoanalytic approaches well represented. These essays illustrate the fact that modern literary theory can usefully be applied to any text or genre. Students of horror fiction seeking new readings, and readers interested in modern approaches to literature, will find this book useful and informative. The essays are all new and have been specially written by leading academics.

0 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book sucks, December 30, 1996

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This review is from: American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King (Hardcover)

This is the worst book I have ever read. Its high price is ridiculous. I can hardly imagine how this kind of trash book can be published. It is a big humiliation to the reader's intelligence. It is a shame to our human culture for how many trees and paper are wasted for printing this useless, awful and sick book.