Beschreibung
Fear in its many facets appears to constitute an intriguing and compelling subject matter for writers and screenwriters alike. The contributions address fictional representations and explorations of fear in different genres and different periods of literary and cultural history. The topics include representations of political violence and political fear in English Renaissance culture and literature; dramatic representations of fear and anxiety in English Romanticism; the dramatic monologue as an expression of fears in Victorian society; cultural constructions of fear and empathy in George Eliots Daniel Deronda (1876) and Jonathan Nasaws Fear Itself (2003); facets of childrens fears in twentieth- and twenty-first-century stream-of-consciousness fiction; the representation of fear in war movies; the cultural function of horror film remakes; the expulsion of fear in Kazuo Ishiguros novel Never Let Me Go and fear and nostalgia in Mohsin Hamids post-9/11 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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