Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell: Religious Terror as Memory from the Puritans to Stephen KingRoutledge, 2016/09/16 - 278 ページ From its beginnings in Puritan sermonising to its prominent place in contemporary genre film and fiction, this book traces the use of terror in the American popular imagination. Entering American culture partly by way of religious sanction, it remains an important heart and mind shaping tool. |
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| 1929 | |
Holy Ghosts | 1956 |
The American Rite or Deviancy | |
Chanting the God Demonic | |
Robert Frost and H P Lovecraft | |
The Sacred and the Scary | |
Toward the American Gothic | |
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