附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Grand United Fear Theory. Why Do Opposites Attract? Fear and Freedom in the Modern Political Imagination / Corey Robin. "A Plague of Paranoia": Theories of Conspiracy Theory since the 1960s / Peter Knight -- pt. II. Rooted Fears in American Culture. "That Epithet of Praying": The Vilification of Praying Indians during King Philip's War / Kristina Bross. "Satan among the Sons of God": The Creation of the Loyalist Enemy, 1774-84 / J.L. Walsh. "These Worms Will Cut the Root of Our Independence": Fears of a State Church among the Anti-mission Baptists of the Nineteenth Century / Jeffrey W. Taylor. "There Are No Ranks among Us": The Ursuline Convent Riot and the Attack on Sister Mary Ursula Moffatt / John Regan. "A Very Deep Design at the Bottom": The Shaker Threat, 1780-1860 / Elizabeth A. De Wolfe -- pt. III. Fear of the Dark. Miscegenation, "Melaleukation," and Public Reception / Eve Allegra Raimon. "A Shameless Prostitute and a Negro": Miscegenation Fears in the Election of 1872 / Amanda Frisken. "Absolute Whiteness": Mudsills and Menaces in the World of Madison Grant / Matthew Guterl. Re-gendering the Enemy: Orientalist Discourse and National Character Studies during World War II / Mari Yoshihara -- pt. IV. Literary Fears. American Agoraphobia: Moby-Dick and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Size / Anne Baker. Fear of Seduction: The Allure of Alcohol in Late-Nineteenth-Century Temperance Thought / Elaine Frantz Parsons. Anxious Dwellings: The Rhetoric of Residential Fear in American Realism / Adam W. Sweeting. Terrorism as Terrorific Mimesis in Floyd Salas's State of Emergency (1996) / Maria DeGuzman -- pt. V. Cold War Anxieties. "Unlucky" Luciano: Fear of Crime during the Cold War / Lee Bernstein. The Cold War Comes to Erie: Repression and Resistance, 1946-54 / James A. Young. Incredible/Shrinking Men: Masculinity and Atomic Anxiety in American Postwar Science-Fiction Film / Anna Creadick -- pt. VI. Anxieties of the Modern Age. Witch-hunting during A
