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Imagining the worst : Stephen King and the representation of women /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lant, Kathleen Margaret, Thompson, Theresa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Series:Contributions to the study of popular culture. no. 67.
Subjects:
King, Stephen, > 1947- > Characters > Women.
Horror tales, American > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Imagining the worst: Stephen King and the representation of women / Kathleen Margaret Lant and Theresa Thompson
  • Cotton Mather and Stephen King: writing/righting the body politic / Edward J. Ingebretsen
  • Patriarchal mediations of Carrie: the book, the movie, and the musical / Douglas Keesey
  • Rituals of male violence: unlocking the (fe)male self in Gerald's game and Dolores Claiborne / Theresa Thompson
  • Repulsive attractions: "The raft," the Vagina Dentata, and the slasher formula / Leonard Cassuto
  • The power of the feminine and the gendered construction of horror in Stephen King's "The reach" / AndrĂ© L. DeCuir
  • Gerald's Game and Dolores Claiborne: Stephen King and the evolution of an authentic female narrative voice / Carol A. Senf
  • "Oh dear Jesus it is female": monster as mother/mother as monster in Stephen King's It / Linda Anderson
  • It, a sexual fantasy / Karen Thoens
  • Cars are girls: sexual power and sexual panic in Stephen King's Christine / Edward Madden
  • The rape of constant reader: Stephen King's construction of the female reader and violation of the female body in Misery / Kathleen Margaret Lant.