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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Gothic revival (Literature) > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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