Monsters in America Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting

Name: Monsters in America Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
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ISBN: 9781602584662

ISBN-10: 1602584664

ISBN-13: 9781602584662

Edition: 2014

Authors: W. Scott Poole

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Salem witches, frontier wilderness beasts, freak show oddities, alien invasions, Freddie Krueger. From our colonial past to the present, the monster in all its various forms has been a staple of American culture. A masterful survey of our grim and often disturbing past, Monsters in America uniquely brings together history and culture studies to expose the dark obsessions that have helped create our national identity.Monsters are not just fears of the individual psyche, historian Scott Poole explains, but are concoctions of the public imagination, reactions to cultural influences, social change, and historical events. Conflicting anxieties about race, class, gender, sexuality, religious…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Publication date: 1/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 295
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English