Titlebook: American Horror Fiction and Class; From Poe to Twilight David Simmons Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 Horror

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Class and Horror Fiction During the Early Twentieth Century,ough to the content of the fiction that was published; in the process giving voice to a set of anxieties and fears concerning the emergent, literate working class, and the changing nature of US identity.

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Representing Class During the Horror Boom of the 1970s and 1980s,of capitalism and the culture industry, while the author himself enjoys immense (continuing) commercial success producing the sort of work his writing often appears to criticize. The chapter resituates King’s place within the development and argues for his importance in US popular Gothic’s ongoing depiction of class and popular culture.

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Horror Fiction and Class in the Contemporary Period,’s . (2002), and Max Brooks’ . (2006). This chapter concludes that in an era when even the most mainstream of genre novels, Stephenie Meyer’s . series, explicitly situates its central characters in terms of their socio-economic status, class remains one of the most abundant sources for anxiety in the US popular psyche.

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2634-6214 the contemporary period.Discusses a comprehensive range of tIn this book, Simmons argues that class, as much as race and gender, played a significant role in the development of Gothic and Horror fiction in a national context. From the classic texts of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne right th

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Book 2017tional context. From the classic texts of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne right through to contemporary examples, such as the novels of Stephen King and Stephenie Meyer’s .Twilight. Series, class remains an ever present though understudied element. This study will appeal to scholars of Ameri

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2634-6214 studied element. This study will appeal to scholars of American Studies, English literature, Media and Cultural Studies interested in class representations in the horror genre from the nineteenth century to the present day..978-1-349-70944-1978-1-137-53280-0Series ISSN 2634-6214 Series E-ISSN 2634-6222

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Class and Horror Fiction at Mid-Century, demonised those that they wrote about, in the post-war period changing sensibilities to the economically marginalised meant that many genre writers increasingly employed psychologically realist approaches to both, evoke sympathy for those living in poverty, and encourage the reader to ask questions about the inequity of US society.

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David SimmonsPresents an innovative study of class depictions in American Horror Fiction.Covers US Horror Fiction from the nineteenth century through to the contemporary period.Discusses a comprehensive range of t