Samuel Chase Coale

Broschiertes Buch

Paradigms of Paranoia

The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction

Beschreibung

Argues that contemporary culture - a landscape characterized by doubt, ambiguity, fragmentation, information overload, and mistrust - has fostered a radical scepticism so pervasive that the tendency to envision or construct conspiracies often provides the best explanation for the chaos that surrounds us.

Autor

Samuel Chase Coale is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and author of Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American Romance and The Mystery of Mysteries: Cultural Differences and Designs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780817359508
• ISBN-10: 0817359508
• Artikelnr.: 62580044