Tag: groupthink
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Echoes of the Mob: Xenobe Purvis’s ‘The Hounding’ Finds Unsettling Resonance in Modern Paranoia
Echoes of the Mob: Xenobe Purvis’s ‘The Hounding’ Finds Unsettling Resonance in Modern Paranoia Xenobe Purvis’s searing historical novel taps into the chilling power of collective hysteria, a phenomenon that feels disturbingly contemporary. In the annals of literature, few historical periods offer such fertile ground for exploring the darker aspects of human nature as 18th-century…
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When Fear Finds a Pack: Xenobe Purvis’s ‘The Hounding’ Echoes Across Centuries
When Fear Finds a Pack: Xenobe Purvis’s ‘The Hounding’ Echoes Across Centuries An 18th-century tale of paranoia and collective madness feels eerily present in today’s charged landscape. In the hushed, often unforgiving annals of literary history, some books possess a spectral quality, their themes and atmospheres resonating with an unsettling persistence across the ages. Xenobe…
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When Fear Becomes the Hunter: Xenobe Purvis’s ‘The Hounding’ Offers a Chilling Echo of Present-Day Paranoia
When Fear Becomes the Hunter: Xenobe Purvis’s ‘The Hounding’ Offers a Chilling Echo of Present-Day Paranoia Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel plunges readers into the unsettling grip of 18th-century English mob mentality, revealing a dark current that resonates disturbingly in our own time. The air in 18th-century England, as rendered by Xenobe Purvis in his debut…