Stephen King

Contents
About This Volume • Gary Hoppenstand
Career, Life, and Influence
	On Stephen King • Gary Hoppenstand
	Biography of Stephen King • Thomas B. Frazier; updated by Gary Hoppenstand
	The Paris Review Perspective • Nathaniel Rich for The Paris Review
Critical Contexts
	The Popularity Problem: Stephen King’s Cultural Context • Amy Palko
	Stephen King’s Critical Reception • Philip L. Simpson
	Writers and Metafiction in Three Stephen King Texts • Dominick Grace
	The Dark Tower: Stephen King’s Revision of Browning and Eliot • Matthew J. Bolton
Critical Readings
	Surviving the Ride • Clive Barker
	King and the Critics • Michael R. Collings
	Do the Dead Sing? • Douglas E. Winter
	King, His World, and Its Characters • Heidi Strengell
	Taking Stephen King Seriously: Reflections on a Decade of Best-Sellers • Samuel Schuman
	The Struggle for Personal Morality in America • Jonathan P. Davis
	Toward Defining an American Gothic: Stephen King and the Romance Tradition • Tony Magistrale
	Technohorror: The Dystopian Vision of Stephen King • James Egan
	The Ending Is Only the Beginning: Genre and Its Influence on Climax • Patrick McAleer
	A Blind Date with Disaster: Adolescent Revolt in the Fiction of Stephen King • Tom Newhouse
	Cotton Mather and Stephen King: Writing/Righting the Body Politic • Edward J. Ingebretsen
	The Prisoner, the Pen, and the Number One Fan: Misery as a Prison Film • Mary Findley
Resources
	Chronology of Stephen King’s Life
	Works by Stephen King
	Bibliography
	About the Editor
	About The Paris Review
	Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Index