The rural gothic in American popular culture : backwoods horror and terror in the wilderness /
"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 a...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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- Acknowledgements Introduction: We're Not Out of the Woods Yet1. The Cabin in the Woods: Order versus Chaos in the 'New World'2. 'We are But a Little Way in the Forest Yet': The Community in the Wilderness3. 'Going Windigo': 'Civilisation' and 'Savagery' on the New Frontier4. Backwoods Nightmares: The Rural Poor as Monstrous Other5. 'Why Wouldn't the Wilderness Fight Us?' Eco-horror and the Apocalypse Notes Bibliography Filmography Index.
