Halfway houses : liminality and the haunted house motif in popular American Gothic fiction

Halfway Houses examines popular American Gothic fiction through a critical focus on what I call the ‘haunted house motif’. This motif, I argue, creates a distinctive narrative space, characterised by the key quality of liminality, in which historical events and processes impact upon the present. Hau...

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Main Author: Janicker, Rebecca
Published: University of Nottingham 2014
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.719396