Wasteland : the Great War and the origins of modern horror
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Berkeley, California : Counterpoint :, [2018].
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First hardcover edition.
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267 pages, : 24 cm
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Meadville Public Library
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Published
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint :, [2018].
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Street Date
1810
Language
English

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"The roots of modern horror are found in the First World War. It was the most devastating event to occur in the early 1900s, with 38 million dead and 17 million wounded in the most grotesque of ways, owing to the new machines brought to war. If Downton Abbey showed the ripple effect of this catastrophe above stairs, Wasteland reveals how it made its way into the darker corners of our psyche on the bloody battlefield, the screaming asylum, and desolated cities and villages. Historian W. Scott Poole chronicles the era's major figures and their influences--Freud, T.S. Eliot, H.P. Lovecraft, Wilfred Owen and Peter Lorre, David Cronenberg and Freddy Krueger--as well as cult favorites and the collective unconscious. Wasteland is a surprising--but wholly convincing--perspective on horror that also speaks to the audience for history, film, and popular culture. November 11th, 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that brought the First World War to a close, and a number of smart and well-received recent histories have helped us reevaluate this conflict. Now W. Scott Poole takes us behind the frontlines of battle to the dark places of the imagination where the legacy of the war to end all wars lives on" --

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Poole, W. S. (2018). Wasteland: the Great War and the origins of modern horror (First hardcover edition.). Counterpoint :.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Poole, W. Scott. 2018. Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror. Counterpoint.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Poole, W. Scott. Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror Counterpoint, 2018.

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Poole, W. Scott. Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror First hardcover edition., Counterpoint :, 2018.

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