Citation

Arnault LS. Hypatia 2003; 18(2): 155-188.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Indiana University Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00809.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Americans cherish the idea that good eventually triumphs over evil. After briefly arguing that a proper understanding of the moral harm of cruelty calls into question the credibility of popular American idioms of redemption, I argue that the epistemic dynamics of horror help account for the commanding grip of this rhetoric on the popular imagination, and I suggest that this idiom has morally problematic features that warrant the attention of feminists.