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Title Imagining the worst : Stephen King and the representation of women / edited by Kathleen Margaret Lant and Theresa Thompson.

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.

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 Moore Stacks  PS3561.I483 Z72 1998    Available  ---
Description viii, 203 pages ; 25 cm.
Women language
Series Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 67
Contributions to the study of popular culture ; no. 67.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index.
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" / André 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.
Subject King, Stephen, 1947- -- Characters -- Women.
King, Stephen, 1947-
Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.
Horror tales, American.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
King, Stephen, 1947- -- Personnages -- Femmes.
Récits d'horreur américains -- Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Horror tales, American.
Added Author Lant, Kathleen Margaret.
Thompson, Theresa.
ISBN 0313302324 alkaline paper