The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness by Bernice M. Murphy

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness

Bernice M. Murphy

272 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction horror dark informative slow-paced

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From the very beginnings of an independent literary culture, the North American wilderness has often served as the setting for narratives in which the boundaries between order and chaos, savagery and civilization are torn down, and the natural wor...

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