An edition of Nightmare on Main Street (1997)

Nightmare on Main Street

angels, sadomasochism, and the culture of Gothic

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An edition of Nightmare on Main Street (1997)

Nightmare on Main Street

angels, sadomasochism, and the culture of Gothic

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  • 6 Want to read

In an assessment of American culture on the eve of the millennium, Mark Edmundson asks why we're determined to be haunted, courting the Gothic at every turn - and, at the same time, committed to escape through any new scheme for ready-made transcendence.

Nightmare on Main Street depicts a culture suffused in the Gothic, not just in novels and films but even in the nonfictive realms of politics and academic theories, TV news and talk shows, various therapies, and discourses on AIDS and the environment. What, Edmundson asks, does the ascendancy of the Gothic in the 1990s tell us about our own day?

And what of another trend, seemingly unrelated - the widespread belief that re-creating oneself is as easy as making a wish? Looking at the world according to Forrest Gump, Edmundson shows how this parallel culture actually works reciprocally with the Gothic.

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Harvard University Press
Language
English
Pages
190

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American Horror tales, Angels in literature, Gothic revival (Literature), History, History and criticism, Horror films, Horror tales, American, Popular culture, Sadomasochism in literature, Horror tales, history and criticism, Horror films, history and criticism, Popular culture, united states, New York Times reviewed

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Cover of: Nightmare on Main Street
Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic
November 1, 1999, Harvard University Press
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Cover of: Nightmare on Main Street
Nightmare on Main Street: angels, sadomasochism, and the culture of Gothic
1997, Harvard University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-186) and index.

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Cambridge, Mass

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813/.0872909
Library of Congress
PS374.G68 E36 1997, PS374.G68E36 1997

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xviii, 190 p. ;
Number of pages
190

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OL674127M
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0674874846
LCCN
97020270
OCLC/WorldCat
36857264
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222298
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2067306

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