Fears and fascinations representing Catholicism in the American South / by Haddox, Thomas F. (Thomas Fredrick)

“…Fears & fascinations…”
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The Politics of everyday fear

Subjects: “…Fear in literature.…”
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Baroque horrors roots of the fantastic in the age of curiosities / by Castillo, David R., 1967-

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Time of beauty, time of fear the Romantic legacy in the literature of childhood /

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Fear, cultural anxiety, and transformation horror, science fiction, and fantasy films remade /

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Fear -- pt. 2. Cultural anxiety -- pt. 3. Transformation.…”
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The gothic vision three centuries of horror, terror and fear / by Cavallaro, Dani

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii -- The Frame of Reference: Theoretical Debates on Horror, Terror and Fear 1 -- Part 1: Darkness -- Introduction 21 -- 1 Dark Places 27 -- 2 Dark Times 38 -- 3 Dark Psyches 48 --Part 2: Haunting -- Introduction 61 -- 4 The Rhetoric of Haunting 65 -- 5 Spectral Forms 75 -- 6 Haunting Settings 85 --Part 3: Narrative and the Self -- Introduction 97 -- 7 Words and Visions 103 -- 8 Textual Identities 113 -- 9 Storytelling as Therapy 123 --Part 4: Child and Adult -- Introduction 135 -- 10 Families 141 -- 11 The Abandoned Child 150 -- 12 Childhood and Otherness 160 --Part 5: Monstrosity -- Introduction 171 -- 13 Vampires 179 -- 14 Hybrid and Grotesque Bodies 190 -- 15 The Abject 199 -- Epilogue 207.…”
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Ambrose Bierce and the dance of death by Talley, Sharon, 1952-

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Horror after 9/11 world of fear, cinema of terror /

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Threat essays in French literature, thought and visual culture /

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Rapture culture left behind in Evangelical America / by Frykholm, Amy Johnson, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The rapture in America -- Networks of readers, networks of meaning -- The margins of left behind's readership -- "I'm a survivor and he's a survivor" -- Reading the signs of the times -- Making prophecy live -- Witness to the Apocalypse -- Fear, desire, and the dynamics of left behind.…”
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Intimacy in America dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature / by Coviello, Peter

Table of Contents: “…-- Intimate property : race and the civics of self-relation -- The melancholy of little girls : Poe, pedophilia, and the logic of slavery -- Bowels and fear : nationalism, sodomy, and whiteness in Moby-Dick -- Loving strangers : intimacy and nationality in Whitman -- Epilogue : nation mourns.…”
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Radicals on the road the politics of English travel writing in the 1930s / by Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The Trouble with Dualism: Sites and Issues 103 6. The Geography of Fear: "Strange Effects of Space" 144 Conclusion 174.…”
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Enviro-toons green themes in animated cinema and television / by PIke, Deidre M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: ecocriticism and animation -- Simply subversive-Felix the cat -- Fear and loathing in Bambi -- Hand-drawn Homer, a comic hero in The Simpsons movie -- Futurama's ecofeminist reading room -- Farting hybrids in South Park's rainforest -- Tap dance of the penguins -- Hovering humanity in Wall-E -- Waking up from Avatar -- Deep ecologies of Hayao Miyazaki -- Animation energy.…”
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Alone in America the stories that matter / by Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal -- Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change -- Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer to defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear and identity in America -- William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference -- Saul Bellow observes old age -- Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss -- Walt Whitman finds the courage to be.…”
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Regional fictions culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature / by Foote, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…"I feared to find myself a foreigner" : Sarah Orne Jewett's The country of the pointed firs -- The region of the repressed and the return of the region : Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic -- The history of a historyless people : Gertrude Atherton's The Californians -- "The shadow of the Ethiopian" : George Washington Cable's The grandissimes -- Disorienting regionalism : Jacob Riis, the city, and the Chinese question -- Representation and Tammany Hall : locating the body politic.…”
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Modernism, satire, and the novel by Greenberg, Jonathan Daniel, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The rule of outrage: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies; 4. Laughter and fear in A Handful of Dust; 5. Cold Comfort Farm and mental life; 6. …”
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The science of Michael Crichton an unauthorized exploration into the real science behind the fictional worlds of Michael Crichton /

Table of Contents: “….: Michael Crichton's State of fear / David Lawrence -- Science comes second in next / Phill Jones.…”
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Intrigue espionage and culture / by Hepburn, Allan

Table of Contents: “…Spies : a theory of intrigue -- Thrills : fear and catharsis as ideological effects -- Codes : self-evident meaning in narratives of intrigue -- Ghosts : illegitimacy and commitment in Under western eyes -- Sewers : fantasies of death and disgust in The third man -- Collaborations : love and war in The heat of the day -- Walls : The spy who came in from the cold as allegory -- Leaks : fighting the queer cold war in The untouchable -- Disappearances : missing bodies in Sabbatical -- Democracy : the death of a spy.…”
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The social life of fluids blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel / by Law, Jules David, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dark ecologies : A tale of two cities and "The cow with the iron tail" -- Disavowing milk : psychic disintegration and domestic reintegration in Dickens's Dombey and son -- A river runs through him : Our mutual friend and the embankment of the Thames -- Perilous reversals : fluid exchange in George Eliot's early works -- Merging with others : destiny and flow in Daniel Deronda -- Tempted by the milk of another : the fantasy of limited circulation in Esther Waters -- Ever-widening circulations : Dracula and the fear of management.…”
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Super-history comic book superheroes and American society, 1938 to the present / by Johnson, Jeffrey K., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…We need a hero: New Deal social avengers and vigilantes (1938-1940) -- World War II and super-patriots (1941-1945) -- The nuclear era (1945-1989) -- The postwar 1940s and 1950s: supernormal (1946-1959) -- Counterculture heroes (1960-1969) -- The American malaise (1970-1979) -- Super-conservatives and neo-cowboys (1980-1989) -- Searching for a new direction (1990-1999) -- Decade of fear (2000-2009).…”
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