The Gothic and the carnivalesque in American culture /
The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture explores the ways in which supposedly horrible fictions are understood by their audiences as naughtily delightful, tracing this reading tradition through American narrative culture.
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| Language: | English |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Gothic literary studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Ballyhoo
- Theory, practice and Gothic carnival
- 'The delight of its horror' : Edgar Allan Poe's carnivals and the nineteenth-century American Gothic
- Weird tales and pulp subjunctivity
- Ray Bradbury and the October aura
- 'Hello, again, you little monsters!' : hosted horrors of the 1950s and 1960s
- Stephen King, affect and the real limits of Gothic practice
- Every day is Halloween : goth and the Gothic
- Conclusion : waiting for the Great Pumpkin.