Edward Ingebretsen

Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell (eBook, PDF)

Religious Terror as Memory from the Puritans to Stephen King

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From its beginnings in Puritan sermonising to its prominent place in contemporary genre film and fiction, this book traces the use of terror in the American popular imagination. Entering American culture partly by way of religious sanction, it remains an important heart and mind shaping tool.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317465263
• Artikelnr.: 49366643

Autorenporträt

Edward J. Ingebretsen

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One Nostalgia and Terror: Holy Ghosts
Chapter Two "Entertaining Satan": The American Rite or Deviancy
Chapter Three Writing the Unholy: Chanting the God Demonic
Chapter Four The Shape of the Dark: Robert Frost and H. P. Lovecraft
Chapter Five "It Came from Beyond": The Sacred and the Scary
postscript End Runs: Toward the American Gothic