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Companion to American Gothic.
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) 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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiley-Blackwell,
2013.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
85. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I Theorizing American Gothic
- 1 The Progress of Theory and the Study of the American Gothic / Jerrold E. Hogle
- 2 Gothic, Theory, Dream / David Punter 3 American Ruins and the Ghost Town Syndrome / Martin Prochazka
- 4 American Monsters / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
- 5 Creation Anxiety in Gothic Metafiction: The Dark Half and Lunar Park / Sherry R. Truffin
- Part II Origins of American Gothic
- 6 The African American Slave Narrative and the Gothic / Teresa A. Goddu
- 7 Indian Captivity Narratives and the Origins of American Frontier Gothic / Matthew Wynn Sivils
- 8 Early American Gothic Drama / Benjamin F. Fisher
- 9 Charles Brockden Brown: Godfather of the American Gothic / Carol Margaret Davison
- 10 George Lippard and the Rise of the Urban Gothic / Chad Luck
- Part III Classic American Gothic and Its Legacies
- 11 New England Gothic / Faye Ringel
- 12 Descendentalism and the Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and the Subversion of American Transcendentalism / Ted Billy
- 13 "Gigantic Paradox, Too ... Monstrous for Solution": Nightmarish Democracy and the Schoolhouse Gothic from "William Wilson" to The Secret History / Sherry R. Truffin
- 14 The Fall of the House, from Poe to Percy: The Evolution of an Enduring Gothic Convention / William Moss
- 15 Henry James's Ghosts / Andrew Smith
- 16 A Sisterhood of Sleuths: The Gothic Heroine, the Girl Detective, and Their Readers / Lynette Carpenter
- 17 They Are Legend: The Popular American Gothic of Ambrose Bierce and Richard Matheson / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
- Part IV American Gothic and Race
- 18 Is There an Indigenous Gothic? / Michelle Burnham
- 19 Gothic Transgressions: Charles W. Chesnutt, Conjure, and the Law / Justin D. Edwards
- 20 Undead Identities: Asian American Literature and the Gothic / Andrew Hock Soon Ng
- Part V Gothic Modern and Postmodern
- 21 I Am Providence: H.P. Lovecraft / Faye Ringel
- 22 Awful Mystery: Flannery O'Connor as Gothic Artist / Chad Rohman
- 23 Not a Refuge Yet: Shirley Jackson's Domestic Hauntings / Dara Downey
- 24 The Strange Case of Joyce Carol Oates / Gavin Cologne-Brookes
- 25 "Identical Boxes Spreading like Gangrene": Defining the Suburban Gothic / Bernice M. Murphy
- 26 The Cold War Gothic Poetry of Sylvia Plath / Kathleen L. Nichols.
- 27 Sexuality and the Twentieth-Century American Vampire / William Hughes
- 28 Why Stephen King Still Matters / Tony Magistrale
- 29 The Ghost of the Counterfeit Child / Steven Bruhm
- 30 Toni Morrison's Gothic: Headless Brides and Haunted Communes / Maisha L. Wester
- 31 When the Blood Trail Comes Full Circle: Cormac McCarthy's Gothic of Guilt / Ronja Vieth
- 32 Becoming-Girl/Becoming-Fly/Becoming-Imperceptible: Gothic Posthumanism in Lynda Barry's Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel / Ellen E. Berry
- 33 Gothic Self-Fashioning in Gibson's Novels: Nature, Culture, Identity, Improvisation, and Cyberspace / John Whatley
- 34 Contemporary Women's Gothic: From Lost Souls to Twilight / Gina Wisker
- 35 Apocalyptic Gothic / Arthur Redding
- Part VI Gothic in Other Media
- 36 The Darkest Nightmares Imaginable: Gothic Audio Drama from Radio to the Internet / Richard J. Hand
- 37 Film Noir and the Gothic / David Fine
- 38 The American Dream/The American Nightmare: American Gothic on the Small Screen / Carol Margaret Davison
- 39 Digital Games and the American Gothic: Investigating Gothic Game Grammar / Tanya Krzywinska
- Part VII American Gothic and World Gothic
- 40 Self-Fragmentation, Diseased Landscapes, and other Enigmatic Engagements: American Gothic and the Literatures of East and Southeast Asia / Andrew Hock Soon Ng
- 41 Fluid Bodies: Gothic Transmutations in Carlos Fuentes' Fiction / Antonio Alcala Gonzalez
- Let a New Gender In? American Responses to Contemporary Scandinavian Gothicism / Carol Siegel.