Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre
byJess Nevins is an instruction and reference librarian at Lone Star College-Tomball.
20200131
Praeger
Pages | 296 |
Topics | 19th Century Horror;Benchley, Peter;British Versus American Horror;Comic Book Horror;Cosmic Horror;Gothic Romances;International Horror;King, Stephen;Mainstream Horror;Pulp Horror;Queer Horror;YA Horror;Popular Culture;The Arts: World Literature |
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Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet critical guide to global horror fiction and authors.
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century encompasses the world of 20th-century horror literature and explores it in a critical but balanced fashion. Readers will be exposed to the world of horror literature, a truly global phenomenon during the 20th century.
Beginning with the modern genre's roots in the 19th century, the book proceeds to cover 20th-century horror literature in all of its manifestations, whether in comics, pulps, paperbacks, hardcover novels, or mainstream magazines, and from every country that produced it. The major horror authors of the century receive their due, but the works of many authors who are less well-known or who have been forgotten are also described and analyzed. In addition to providing critical assessments and judgments of individual authors and works, the book describes the evolution of the genre and the major movements within it.
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century stands out from its competitors and will be of interest to its readers because of its informed critical analysis, its unprecedented coverage of female authors and writers of color, and its concise historical overview.
- Covers both the best-known authors of horror literature and a large number of lesser-known or forgotten authors whose work would reward searching out by modern readers
- Is unprecedented in its coverage of international horror literature and includes dozens of authors whose horror fiction has never before been translated into English
- Covers the major 20th century developments and movements within horror literature in one volume, in a linear and chronological manner
- Is a corrective to decades of sexist, racist, colonialist, and provincial horror criticism
- Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre
Author(s): Nevins, Jess;Contributors: Nevins, Jess;Abstract:Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet critical guide to global horror fiction and authors.
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century encompasses the world of 20th-century horror literature and explores it in a critical but balanced fashion. Readers will be exposed to the world of horror literature, a truly global phenomenon during the 20th century.
Beginning with the modern genre's roots in the 19th century, the book proceeds to cover 20th-century horror literature in all of its manifestations, whether in comics, pulps, paperbacks, hardcover novels, or mainstream magazines, and from every country that produced it. The major horror authors of the century receive their due, but the works of many authors who are less well-known or who have been forgotten are also described and analyzed. In addition to providing critical assessments and judgments of individual authors and works, the book describes the evolution of the genre and the major movements within it.
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century stands out from its competitors and will be of interest to its readers because of its informed critical analysis, its unprecedented coverage of female authors and writers of color, and its concise historical overview.
- Covers both the best-known authors of horror literature and a large number of lesser-known or forgotten authors whose work would reward searching out by modern readers
- Is unprecedented in its coverage of international horror literature and includes dozens of authors whose horror fiction has never before been translated into English
- Covers the major 20th century developments and movements within horror literature in one volume, in a linear and chronological manner
- Is a corrective to decades of sexist, racist, colonialist, and provincial horror criticism
SortTitle: horror fiction in the 20th century: exploring literature's most chilling genreAuthor Info:Jess NevinsauthorJess Nevins is an instruction and reference librarian at Lone Star College-Tomball.
eISBN-13: 9781440862069Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440862069.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440862052Imprint: PraegerPages: 296Publication Date: 20200131Table of Contents pages: 1 2
- Cover Cover11
- Half Title i2
- Title iii4
- Copyright iv5
- Dedication v6
- Contents vii8
- Acknowledgments xi12
- Introduction xiii14
- Part One 1901—1939, The Golden Age 120
- Part Two 1940—1970, Midcentury Frights 7998
- Chapter 6 American Writers 81100
- Chapter 7 British Writers 90109
- Chapter 8 Horror in the Mainstream 98117
- Chapter 9 Horror on the Cheap 105124
- Chapter 10 Outside the Anglosphere, 1940—1970 113132
- Part Three 1971—2000, The Boom Years 137156
- Chapter 11 Horror as Big Business 139158
- Chapter 12 The Boom and Bust of the 1980s and 1990s 152171
- Chapter 13 Short-Fiction Authors, 1971—2000 166185
- Chapter 14 Horror for Children and Young Adults 175194
- Chapter 15 Outsiders Writing Horror 184203
- Chapter 16 Outside the Anglosphere, 1971—2000 199218
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