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 world - as
well as the individuals and creatures associated with it - becomes
a threat to physical and moral safety. The Rural Gothic in American
Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial
responses early European settlers expressed toward the North
American Wilderness continue to influence American horror and
gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed and
historically grounded analysis of key literary and filmic texts.
The works of canonical authors such as Mary Rowlandson, Charles
Brockden Brown and Nathaniel Hawthorne are discussed, as are the
origins and characteristics of the backwoods horror film tradition
and the post-1960 eco-horror narrative.
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