Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell: Religious Terror as Memory from the Puritans to Stephen King

by Edward Ingebretsen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563248719
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/1996
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1330L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter One Nostalgia and Terror: Holy Ghosts; Chapter Two “Entertaining Satan”: The American Rite or Deviancy; Chapter Three Writing the Unholy: Chanting the God Demonic; Chapter Four The Shape of the Dark: Robert Frost and H. P. Lovecraft; Chapter Five “It Came from Beyond”: The Sacred and the Scary; postscript End Runs: Toward the American Gothic;