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| author |
Meghan Macaluso
| | title |
Home is Where the Horror is: The Representation of American Domesticity in the Post-War Horror Literature of Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and Danielle Valentine
| | abstract |
In this thesis I explore the American horror genre's consistent interest with the private
domestic sphere through post-war fiction from my selected authors. I use theories of authorship
from Iser and Daseler to consider the authors' apparent biographical connection to their novels
and the implications of these connections as they pertain to the contextualization of each novel
within its contemporary society. In addition to contextualizing these novels through their authors,
I consider the sociological context of each decade from which the novels were written. I use
sociology to interpret the critiques and commentaries being illuminated through the authors' uses
of the generic conventions and traditions of the horror genre as they derive from the American
Gothic genre and explore how these conventions contribute to the deeper sociological meaning
of each text.
| | school |
The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University
| | degree |
B.A. (2025)
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| full text | MMacaluso.pdf |
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