Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film(English, Hardcover, Schober A.)

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Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film(English, Hardcover, Schober A.) is written by Schober A. and published by Palgrave USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1403935106 (ISBN 10) and 9781403935106 (ISBN 13).

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.