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    Sympathy for the Devil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Psychopath, the Late 1950s to the 1980s
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    Sympathy for the Devil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Psychopath, the Late 1950s to the 1980s
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    Sympathy for the Devil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Psychopath, the Late 1950s to the 1980s
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    Sympathy for the Devil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Psychopath, the Late 1950s to the 1980s

    By Barbara Kujath

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    American novelists of the sixties’ era predicted the rise of a new sociopathic personality type on the American social and cultural scene that they warned would become an important expression of human behaviour by the turn of the next century and new millennium. By means of this widely misread central claim of much of the controversial writing of the time, said novelists attempted the literary portrayal of a disturbing new social trend and created an artistic tradition that has been flourishing ever since. This study focuses on how a generation of American writers reinvented the traditional novel to depict a new kind of human experience in a modern social environment of ‘perpetual warfare’ and ‘institutionalised violence’ to gain cultural bearing for this anti-social character type they felt was on the rise. This work offers the first literary history of the origins and early development of the psychopath figure and genre in American literature and art.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAustin Macauley Publishers
    Release dateOct 30, 2020
    ISBN9781528965538
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    Sympathy for the Devil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Psychopath, the Late 1950s to the 1980s
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    Barbara Kujath

    Barbara Kujath was born and grew up in Calgary, Canada, and is of German-Canadian background. In 2001, she left Canada to study at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany. She finished her master's studies in English and German literature in 2007 and went on to complete her doctoral thesis in American literature at the Heidelberg Centre for American Studies. She currently resides in Germany, just north of Frankfurt.

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