House of Horrors Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction

An analysis of intimate relationships in modern American horror fiction. This is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades. Twelve contemporary novels are grouped into four familiar thematic clusters--haunted houses, monsters, vampires, and hauntings--but it is primarily social scripts and concerns linked to intimacy and family life that structure the volume.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Agnieszka Kotwasińska is assistant professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw.

Zusammenfassung

This volume demonstrates how contemporary American horror by women writers (and those whose output has been identified as women’s fiction) is not limited to sparkling vampires, but is in fact a pulsating field bursting with genre-defying works spanning the last three decades.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Agnieszka Kotwasinska
• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2023
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• EAN: 9781837720125
• ISBN: 978-1-83772-012-5
• Anzahl Seiten: 256
• Serie: Horror Studies
• Themen: USA, Horror, american, House, Contemporary, Fiction, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, of, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Intimacies, familial, Horrors, Agnieszka, Kotwasińska