Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film
Contrary States
Part of the Crime Files book series (CF)
About this book
Introduction
This book undertakes a study of the trope of 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.
Keywords
children culture film Narrative
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599543
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-51771-8
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-59954-3
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