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- catalog abstract "Puritan theology maintained the "men need to be terrified, so that they may be converted." Yet the fear of self-loss at the heart of religious conversion was, oddly enough, similar to the fear provoked by witchery and demonic possession. Thus terror entered American culture partly by way of religious sanction, and it continues to be an important social tool for the shaping of hearts and minds. This book defines the use of terror in the American popular imagination from its beginnings in Puritan sermonizing to its prominent place in contemporary genre film and fiction.".
- catalog contributor b9632242.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Last Things First: A Dante-esque Digression -- Preface: The Semiotics of Terror -- Ch. 1. Nostalgia and Terror: Holy Ghosts -- Ch. 2. "Entertaining Satan": The American Rite of Deviancy -- Ch. 3. Writing the Unholy: Chanting the God Demonic -- Ch. 4. The Shape of the Dark: Robert Frost and H.P. Lovecraft -- Ch. 5. "It Came from Beyond": The Sacred and the Scary -- Postscript: End Runs: Toward the American Gothic.".
- catalog description "Puritan theology maintained the "men need to be terrified, so that they may be converted." Yet the fear of self-loss at the heart of religious conversion was, oddly enough, similar to the fear provoked by witchery and demonic possession. Thus terror entered American culture partly by way of religious sanction, and it continues to be an important social tool for the shaping of hearts and minds. This book defines the use of terror in the American popular imagination from its beginnings in Puritan sermonizing to its prominent place in contemporary genre film and fiction.".
- catalog extent "xxxviii, 239 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Maps of heaven, maps of hell.".
- catalog identifier "1563248719".
- catalog identifier "1563248727 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Maps of heaven, maps of hell.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe,".
- catalog relation "Maps of heaven, maps of hell.".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.0873809 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction English influences.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and literature.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Religious aspects Christianity.".
- catalog subject "Gothic revival (Literature) English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Gothic revival (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "Heaven in literature.".
- catalog subject "Hell in literature.".
- catalog subject "Horror tales, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Memory in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.H67 I54 1996".
- catalog subject "Puritan movements in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Last Things First: A Dante-esque Digression -- Preface: The Semiotics of Terror -- Ch. 1. Nostalgia and Terror: Holy Ghosts -- Ch. 2. "Entertaining Satan": The American Rite of Deviancy -- Ch. 3. Writing the Unholy: Chanting the God Demonic -- Ch. 4. The Shape of the Dark: Robert Frost and H.P. Lovecraft -- Ch. 5. "It Came from Beyond": The Sacred and the Scary -- Postscript: End Runs: Toward the American Gothic.".
- catalog title "Maps of heaven, maps of hell : religious terror as memory from the Puritans to Stephen King / Edward J. Ingebretsen.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".