No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock

ISBN-10: 0701165936
ISBN-13: 9780701165932
Pages: 435
Language: English
Published: 1998
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Author: Marina Warner

Description

A book which explores the ever increasing presence of ogres, giants, bogeymen and other such figures of male terror in popular fiction and the stratagems we invent to allay the monsters we conjure up. Warner traces the roots of our commonest anxieties, unravelling the myths and fears which define our sensibilities.