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    A Study Guide for Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World
    A Study Guide for Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World
    A Study Guide for Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World
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    A Study Guide for Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World

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    A Study Guide for Jane Hamilton's "A Map of the World," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 30, 2015
    ISBN9781535816847
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      A Study Guide for Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World - Gale

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      A Map of the World

      Jane Hamilton

      1994

      Introduction

      Jane Hamilton is a popular and award-winning novelist, and A Map of the World, published in 1994, is her most important and widely read work. A Map of the World is written in the idiom of the American gothic, a literary tradition stretching back to nineteenth-century writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. American gothic reshapes the stylistic vocabulary of gothic literature, with its haunted castles, damsels in distress, and love of the grotesque, into an exposition of the dark underside of American culture, seeing America not as a land of limitless opportunity but as a wild land filled with threatening danger lurking in the shadows. A Map of the World recalls the real-world phenomenon, all too common in the 1980s and 1990s, of what has been called the satanic panic, a wave of hysterical accusations against day-care providers and others working with children that they not only molested their charges but were also part of a vast conspiracy bent on sacrificing children to Satan. These utterly false charges, which saw many innocent Americans wrongly imprisoned, were soon likened to the witch hunts that marred early American history at Salem, Massachusetts, and which were equally fantastic. The Salem experience was also an integral feature of older American gothic literature. Readers of A Map of the World should be aware that while there is no actual child abuse in the novel, there are discussions of such abuse and sexuality in general.

      Author Biography

      Hamilton was born in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago famous for its many early examples of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, on July 13, 1957. She took an undergraduate degree in English at Carleton College, in Minnesota. She was encouraged by her professors there to become a professional writer. In 2006, Hamilton told interviewer Mark Hertzberg for the Journal Times of Racine, Wisconsin, that she was deeply affected by overhearing her creative writing professor say that he thought Hamilton would someday write a novel. Hamilton told Hertzberg,

      It had a lot more potency, the fact that I overheard it, rather than his telling me directly. … I was just stunned. … I didn't tell anyone. I suppose, in a way, it was like getting an unexpected letter from someone you love dearly, as a teenager, saying

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