Everyday Evil in Stephen King’s America: Essays, Images, Paratexts

This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King’s now-familiar American imaginary; an imaginary that increases the representational limits of both anticipated and experienced realism.

Jason S Polley is an associate professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University. He teaches modern fiction. He has articles on John Banville, District 9, Jane Smiley, Watchmen, Wong Kar-wai, House of Leaves, Bombay Fever, Joel Thomas Hynes, R. Crumb, critical pedagogy, and David Foster Wallace. He’s co-editor of the essay volumes Poetry in Pedagogy (2021) and Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong (2018).

Stephanie Laine Hamilton is a historian and freelance academic who has published on topics including ancient Roman performance culture, representations of sport in Plutarch, and the poetic practices of late antique cento and mid-20th century cut-ups. Hamilton also authored Booze and Bars: A Brief History of Pub Culture in the Crowsnest Pass (2016), which spawned her current PhD work on brewing history in North America.