Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook by Corcoran, Miranda

Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook

A fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the dark history of the US and exploring...
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Author: Miranda Corcoran
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Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook by Corcoran, Miranda

Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook

$38.38

Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook

$38.38
Author: Miranda Corcoran
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the dark history of the US and exploring how past horrors - from witch trials to slavery and genocide - continue to haunt the national consciousness.

Haunted States is a unique guidebook that explores the dark, often horrifying, history of the US. Based on the author's journey across the United States in summer 2022, it explores locations connected to Gothic fiction and film, tracking the relationship between the American landscapes and the various forms of fictional horror the nation has produced over the centuries.

Part cultural history and part travelogue, Haunted States traces how the American Gothic draws inspiration from the natural and built environments, with the astounding geographical variation of the landscape influencing the distinctive forms of horror produced across its many diverse regions. The book also investigates how the horrors of the American Gothic have their roots in the nation's dark history of colonialism, slavery, violence and oppression - past sins that continue to haunt the national consciousness to this day. Taking horror (in literature, film and the visual arts) as its starting point, Haunted States investigates the landscapes, places and cultures that produced it.

Incorporating first-person travel narrative, historical context and supplementary interviews, Haunted States journeys across the USA to learn about its eclectic, regional forms of horror.

Author: Miranda Corcoran
Publisher: Repeater
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781914420320

About the Author
Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature at University College Cork. Her first monograph, Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches, was published in June 2022 by the University of Wales Press. Her next book, a study of the 1996 film The Craft, will be published by Auteur/Liverpool University Press in summer 2023. She has published in numerous academic journals and regularly provides DVD audio-commentaries and video essays for horror releases.

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