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by Dale Bailey

Author: Dale Bailey
Publisher: Popular Press 1; 1 edition (June 15, 1999)
Language: English
Pages: 156
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Category: Literature
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American Nightmares is a keen examination of the haunted house story and how it is inherently an American tale, how it is. .
American Nightmares is a keen examination of the haunted house story and how it is inherently an American tale, how it is, in fact, a direct and dire result of our everyday obsessions with the American Dream. Bailey takes obvious delight in examining such pop icons as The Haunting of Hill House, The Amityville Horror, Burnt Offerings, and The Shining (and as he does, you can almost hear the wailings and gnashings of teeth from ivory towers across the country). 19 people found this helpful.
Dale 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
Dale 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. The author concludes that the haunted house has become a powerful and profoundly subversive symbol of everything that has gone nightmarishly awry in the American Dream.
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In 'American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction', scholar and fantasy writer Dale Bailey traces the motive from English gothic fiction through such luminaries as Poe and Hawthorne to Steven King and paperback potboilers of the present.
The haunted-house formula enabled writers as diverse as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Shirley Jackson to dramatize the problems of a patriarchal culture which denied women an equal part in the American Dream. tool to probe the distortions wrought by materialism upon the values of an aspiring-and an affluent-middle class; and permitted Stephen King, perhaps the premier American gothic artist of the twentieth century, to re-enact the historical injustices of a political and economic system which oppresses the people it should empower.
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Are you sure you want to remove American nightmares from your list? American nightmares. the haunted house formula in American popular fiction. Published 1999 by Bowling Green State University Popular Press in Bowling Green, OH. Written in English.
December 31st 1999 by Popular Press 1 (first June 15th 1999).
American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction. December 31st 1999 by Popular Press 1 (first June 15th 1999).
by Dale BaileyDale Bailey is the author of the novels The Fallen, House of Bones, and Sleeping Policemen (with Jack .
by Dale BaileyDale Bailey is the author of the novels The Fallen, House of Bones, and Sleeping Policemen (with Jack Slay, J. His short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, and SCI FICTION. He has also written a non-fiction book, American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction. This story won the International Horror Guild Award, and was adapted into an episode of the television series Masters of Horror. Bailey has also twice been nominated for the Nebula Award.