American nightmares : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction /

"Bailey traces the haunted house tale from its origins in English gothic fiction to the paperback potboilers of the present, highlighting the unique significance of the house in the domestic, economic, and social ideologies of our nation. In the hands of the best gothic writers, Bailey conclude...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bailey, Dale
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, ©1999.
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. Haunted houses in literature. Popular literature > United States > History and criticism. National characteristics, American, in literature. Ghost stories, American > History and criticism. Horror tales, American > History and criticism. Nightmares in literature. Home in literature.
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	9780299268732 029926873X 1283976188 9781283976183
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Welcome to the Funhouse: Gothic and the Architecture of Subversion
The Sentient House and the Ghostly Tradition: The Legacy of Poe and Hawthorne
June Cleaver in the House of Horrors: Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
"Too bad we can't stay, baby!": The Horror at Amityville
Middle-Class Nightmares: Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings and Anne Rivers Siddons's The House Next Door
Unmanned by the American Dream: Stephen King's The Shining
Ghosts in the Machine: The Future of the Haunted House Formula.

American nightmares : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction /

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