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Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film: Contrary States (Crime Files S.)

✍ Scribed by Adrian Schober

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Leaves
219
Series
Crime Files S
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This book undertakes a study of the trope of the possessed child in literature and film. It argues that the possessed child is fundamentally an American phenomenon which, first, may be traced to the Calvinist bias of the US as a nation founded on Puritanism and, second, to the rise of Catholicism in that country, to which Puritanism owes its origins.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 0
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Contrary states......Page 14
The lost child......Page 20
The possessed child: themes and variations......Page 24
Culture, religion and discourse......Page 41
2 The New England Connection......Page 51
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter......Page 55
Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw......Page 67
3 God is Dead......Page 76
William Peter Blatty’s and William Friedkin’s The Exorcist......Page 77
Masculinity in crisis: Damiano Damiani’s Amityville II: The Possession......Page 94
Frank De Felitta’s and Robert Wise’s Audrey Rose......Page 100
5 Culture Shock......Page 123
James Herbert’s Shrine......Page 129
6 For Children Only?......Page 147
William Mayne’s IT......Page 149
Victor Kelleher’s Del-Del......Page 164
7 Conclusion......Page 177
Notes......Page 187
Filmography......Page 195
Bibliography......Page 198
Index......Page 209

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