Stephen King /
editor, Gary Hoppenstand.
- Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011.
- viii, 344 p. ; 24 cm.
- Critical insights .
- Critical insights. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On Stephen King / Biography of Stephen King / The Paris review perspective / The popularity problem : Stephen King's cultural context / Stephen King's critical reception / Writers and metafiction in three Stephen King texts / The dark tower : Steven King's revision of Browning and Eliot / Surviving the ride / King and the critics / Do the dead sing? / King, his world, and its characters / Taking Stephen King seriously : reflections on a decade of best-sellers / The struggle for personal morality in America / Toward defining an American Gothic : Stephen King and the romance tradition / Technohorror : the dystopian vision of Stephen King / The ending is only the beginning : genre and its influence on climax / A blind date with disaster : adolescent revolt in the fiction of Stephen King / Cotton Mather and Stephen King : writing/righting the body politic / The prisoner, the pen, and the number one fan : Misery as a prison film / Gary Hoppenstand -- Thomas B. Frazier ; updated by Gary Hoppenstand -- Nathaniel Rich for The Paris review -- Amy Palko -- Philip L. Simpson -- Dominick Grace -- Matthew J. Bolton -- Clive Barker -- Michael R. Collings -- Douglas E. Winter -- Heidi Strengell -- Samuel Schuman -- Jonathan P. Davis -- Tony Magistrale -- James Egan -- Patrick McAleer -- Tom Newhouse -- Edward J. Ingebretsen -- Mary Findley.