A companion to American gothic /

A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America's gothic literary tradition. * The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic * Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world * The most complete coverage of theo...

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Other Authors: Crow, Charles L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014.
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 85.
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505 0 |a Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- About the Book -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Theorizing American Gothic -- 1: The Progress of Theory and the Study of the American Gothic -- Cross-References -- 2: Gothic, Theory, Dream -- Cross-References -- 3: American Ruins and the Ghost Town Syndrome -- Introduction: American Ruins as Different Spaces -- The Play of Substitutions: Ghost Towns in Recent American Literature 
505 8 |a The Quasi-Eternity of Violence: Anasazi Ruins as the Ghost TownCross-References -- 4: American Monsters -- Monsters Are Other People: The American Monster as Cultural Other -- The Numinous American Monster -- Made in America: Monsters Made By Man -- Natural Monsters -- Cross-References -- 5: Creation Anxiety in Gothic Metafiction: The Dark Half and Lunar Park -- Cross-References -- Part II: Origins of American Gothic -- 6: The African American Slave Narrative and the Gothic -- Cross-References 
505 8 |a 7: Indian Captivity Narratives and the Origins of American Frontier GothicCross-References -- 8: Early American Gothic Drama -- Some Notable Achievements -- Cross-References -- 9: Charles Brockden Brown: Godfather of the American Gothic -- Cross-References -- 10: George Lippard and the Rise of the Urban Gothic -- Cross-References -- Part III: Classic American Gothic and Its Legacies -- 11: New England Gothic -- Puritan Paranoia and Necromancy: A (Mainly) Male Gothic Tradition -- Something in the House: The Female Gothic Tradition in New England 
505 8 |a Gothic Revivals in New EnglandGothic New England Today and in the Future -- Cross-References -- 12: Descendentalism and the Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and the Subversion of American Transcendentalism -- Nature, Sacred and Profane -- Self-Reliant Individualism and Morbid Subjectivity -- Utopianism and Dystopianism -- Cross-References -- 13: Gigantic Paradox, Too ... Monstrous for Solution: Nightmarish Democracy and the Schoolhouse Gothic from William Wilson to The Secret History -- Cross-References 
505 8 |a 14: The Fall of the House, from Poe to Percy: The Evolution of an Enduring Gothic ConventionCross-References -- 15: Henry James's Ghosts -- Cross-References -- 16: A Sisterhood of Sleuths: The Gothic Heroine, the Girl Detective, and Their Readers -- Cross-References -- 17: They Are Legend: The Popular American Gothic of Ambrose Bierce and Richard Matheson -- Cross-References -- Part IV: American Gothic and Race -- 18: Is There an Indigenous Gothic? -- The Native American in American Gothic -- Native American Gothic -- Indigenous Gothic -- Cross-References 
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