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New England's Gothic Literature History and Folklore of the Supernatural from the Seventeenth Through the Twentieth Centuries - Couverture souple

Ringel, Faye

 
9780773408647: New England's Gothic Literature History and Folklore of the Supernatural from the Seventeenth Through the Twentieth Centuries
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0773408649 ISBN 13 : 9780773408647
Editeur : Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

This comprehensive comparative approach to the folklore, fantasy, and horror literature of New England stretches from the earliest European exploration to Stephen King, John Updike, and Shirley Jackson. Along the way it examines the Puritan witch trials as examined by Hawthorne, Arthur Miller, H.P. Lovecraft, and others; folk tales of the Windham Frogs and ghost ships; Hawthorne in Salem, Poe in Providence; the flowering of spiritualism and mysticism from 1848-1900; the New England Vampire Belief in reality and fiction from Mary Wilkins Freeman and H.P. Lovecraft to Stephen King; to the present day - King, Charles Grant, Peter Straub, Rich Hautala, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson. Includes interviews with Les Daniels, Grant, and other horror writers who reside or set their stories in New England.

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Éditeur
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0773408649
ISBN 13 
9780773408647
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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