Nightmare on Main Street : angels, sadomasochism, and the culture of Gothic / Mark Edmundson.
Nightmare on Main Street : angels, sadomasochism, and the culture of Gothic / Mark Edmundson.
Nightmare on Main Street : angels, sadomasochism, and the culture of Gothic / Mark Edmundson.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N813.0872909/2
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English
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xviii, 190 p. ; 22 cm.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
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...
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Nightmare on Main Street : angels, sadomasochism, and the culture of Gothic / Mark Edmundson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-186) and index.
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N813.0872909/2
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74VMbwRMaOxb
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0674874846 (cloth alk. paper)
9780674874848 (cloth : alk. paper)
0674874846 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674624634 (pbk.) :
0674624637 (pbk.) :
9780674874848 (cloth alk. paper)
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813.0872909
8130872909
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991000656349702626
