The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts.
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The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts.
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The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness

by B. Murphy
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness
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The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness

by B. Murphy

Overview

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137353726
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 10/31/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 257
File size: 515 KB

About the Author

Bernice M. Murphy is Lecturer in Popular Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Publications include The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture (2009), The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture (2013) and the collections Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy (2005) and (with Darryl Jones and Elizabeth McCarthy) It Came From the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (2011).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: We're Not Out of the Woods Yet 1. The Cabin in the Woods: Order versus Chaos in the 'New World' 2. 'We are But a Little Way in the Forest Yet': The Community in the Wilderness 3. 'Going Windigo': 'Civilisation' and 'Savagery' on the New Frontier 4. Backwoods Nightmares: The Rural Poor as Monstrous Other 5. 'Why Wouldn't the Wilderness Fight Us?' Eco-horror and the Apocalypse Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
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