Fear

Essays on the meaning and experience of fear


Kate Hebblethwaite & Elizabeth McCarthy, editors

Hardback €49.50
Catalogue Price: €55.00
ISBN: 978-1-84682-070-0
December 2007. 240pp.

Our culture of fear, Frank Furedi 

The Irish rebellion of 1798 and tropes of violence, Ian Haywood

Die Gelbe Gehafr, le peril jaune, the yellow peril: the geopolitics of fear, David Glover

American ad culture and war propaganda, E. McCarthy

GB84 and counter-insurgency,Deaglán O’Donghaile

The politics of fear and ethics of representing 9/11, John-Paul Colgan

Lessons from the Blitz and other disasters, Bill Durodiè

The fiction of the American neo-Nazi movement, Darryl Jones

The young Buddha’s mystery trip, Mark O’Sullivan

Childhood fears and children’s literature, Amanda Piesse

Anxiety disorders in childhood and the therapeutic use of stories, Gary O’Reilly

‘The Nightmare’: Fuseli to Frankenstein and beyond, Sir Christoper Frayling

Debunking the legend of Leap, K. Hebblethwaite

Disorientation in Mark Z. Danielwski’s House of Leaves, Dara Downey

Why horror films aren’t scary anymore, Bernice Murphy