Who's afraid of…?

Facets of Fear in Anglophone Literature and Film

Marion Gymnich, Uwe Baumann, Marion Gymnich, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9783847100508
• eBook ISBN: 9783847000501
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism History & Theory
• Index: Literature

Fear in its many facets appears to constitute an intriguing and compelling subject matter for writers and screenwriters alike. The contributions address fictional representations and explorations of fear in different genres and different periods of literary and cultural history. The topics include representations of political violence and political fear in English Renaissance culture and literature; dramatic representations of fear and anxiety in English Romanticism; the dramatic monologue as an expression of fears in Victorian society; cultural constructions of fear and empathy in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) and Jonathan Nasaw's Fear Itself (2003); facets of children's fears in twentieth- and twenty-first-century stream-of-consciousness fiction; the representation of fear in war movies; the cultural function of horror film remakes; the expulsion of fear in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go and fear and nostalgia in Mohsin Hamid's post-9/11 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Marion Gymnich: Fictions of Fear – Representations of Fear in Anglophone Literature and Audiovisual Media
• Uwe Baumann: Ruling by Fear / Ruled by Fear: Representations of Political Violence and Political Fear in English Renaissance Culture and Literature
• Andrea Rummel: Romanticism, Anxiety and Dramatic Representation
• Gislind Rohwer-Happe: The Dramatic Monologue and the Preservation of Victorian Fears
• Stella Butter: Cultural Constructions of Fear and Empathy: The Emotional Structure of Relationships in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) and Jonathan Nasaw's Fear Itself (2003)
• Sara Strauß: Facets of Children's Fears in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Stream-of-Consciousness Fiction
• Marcel Inhoff: Fearing, Loathing: Robert Lowell, Hunter S. Thompson and the Rise of Richard Nixon
• Klaus Scheunemann: Fight or Flight – Fear in War Movies
• Christian Knöppler: Remaking Fear: The Cultural Function of Horror Film Remakes
• Elena Baeva: `A Little Gasp Went Around [] Like a Scream' – The Use of Time-Tried Motifs of Fear in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds
• Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz: Nothing to be Frightened of? The Expulsion of Fear in Kazuo Ishiguro's Novel Never Let Me Go
• Nina Liewald: `Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America' – Fear and Nostalgia in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• Imke Lichterfeld: `Timor mortis conturbat me. Fear of death disturbs me' – Fear and Terror in Frank McGuinness' Speaking like Magpies
• Antonio Wojahn: Fear of Death in J.G. Ballard's Crash
• Contributors