Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film

Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film PDF Author: A. Schober
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230599540
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Book Description
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.