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Images of Fear Martin Tropp

Images of Fear By Martin Tropp

Images of Fear by Martin Tropp


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This text looks at such varied subjects as Victorian architecture, urban crime, women's rights and the impact of new technology in an attempt to understand the peculiar relationship between horror in literature and the horror of daily life.

Images of Fear Summary

Images of Fear: How Horror Stories Helped Shape Modern Culture (1818-1918) by Martin Tropp

On the Western Front in World War I, a generation faced a horrifying reality that ushered in the modern age. But in the previous century, many of the fears we still face were first given form in the pages of popular fiction. Books such as Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula became modern myths because they gave people a safe way to confront modern fears also taking shape at that time.

By looking at such varied subjects as Victorian architecture, urban crime, women's rights, and the impact of new technology, we can come to understand the peculiar relationship between horror in literature and the horror of daily life. World War I made it clear that the images of horror in popular fiction had not been an escape from the world around us, but a way of seeing deeper into it, as well as revealing the shape of things to come.

Images of Fear Reviews

Convincingly traces the gradual blurring of the line between gothic literary conventions and an increasingly horrific reality. -Choice

Chronicles the way society imitates art. -TAB

Readers...may be astonished at the scope and ambition...an impressive armament of biographical, political, historical, sociological, and textual analyses.... Tropp writes consistently lucid, engaging criticism...many excellent parts...recommend[ed]. -Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual<

Writes clearly. -Neil Barron, Editor of Fantasy and Horror

About Martin Tropp

The late Martin Tropp was a professor of English at Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts.

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NPB9780786407545
9780786407545
0786407549
Images of Fear: How Horror Stories Helped Shape Modern Culture (1818-1918) by Martin Tropp
New
Paperback
McFarland & Co Inc
1999-11-30
251
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