Dissecting Stephen King : from the Gothic to literary naturalism /

"Heidi Strengell shows that by tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to reveal contemporary phobias, Stephen King invokes the abnormal and repressed sexuality of the vampire, the hubris of Frankenstein, the split identity of the werewolf, the domestic melodrama of the ghost tale. Drawing o...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Strengell, Heidi.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press, ©2005.
Series:Ray and Pat Browne Book Ser.
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