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Author:   Rebecca Janicker
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786465736

ISBN 10:   0786465735
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   26 January 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: The Haunted House Motif in Popular American Fiction One. “The changeless, ­legend-haunted city of Arkham”: Cosmicism, Regionalism and Liminality in “The Dreams in the Witch House” Two. “Behind the barricades of silence”: Haunted Suburbia in A Stir of Echoes Three. “A ghost in his life?”: The Legacy of the 1950s Marriage in Earthbound Four. “Protecting the hotel was his job. He was the caretaker”: Masculinity, Class and Capitalism in The Shining Five. “Going places with the Young in Heart”: Haunted by Nostalgia and the Past in Christine Six. “It’s my house, isn’t it?”: Memory, Identity and Haunting in Bag of Bones Conclusion: Return of the Repressed: The Future of the Haunted House Motif Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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Janicker presents students, academics, and general-interest readers with a critical investigation of the haunted house as a motif unifying setting and them from its beginnings in early English Gothic novels to its contemporary place in American fiction --<i>ProtoView</i>.

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Rebecca Janicker is a senior lecturer in film and media studies at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.

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