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.
| ISBN: | 9781403935106 |
| Publication date: | 30th July 2004 |
| Author: | Adrian Schober |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 206 pages |
| Series: | Crime Files |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Film history, theory or criticism Cultural studies Sociology: family and relationships Performing arts Fiction |