Landscape of Fear: Stephen King's American Gothic

by Tony Magistrale

Book Overview

One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony Magistrale shows how King's fiction transcends the escapism typical of its genre to tap into our deepest cultural fears: "that the government we have installed through the democratic process...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879724048
• ISBN13: 9780879724047
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Popular Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"