American Gothic Culture : : An Edinburgh Companion / / Jason Haslam, Joel Faflak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Haslam, Jason ,; Faflak, Joel,
• MitwirkendeR: Blake, Linnie,; Faflak, Joel,; Fhlainn, Sorcha Ní,; Grunenberg, Christoph,; Hancock, Michael,; Haslam, Jason,; Lloyd, Christopher,; Loman, Andrew,; Redding, Arthur,; Truffin, Sherry R.,; Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew,; Wright, Julia M.,; Yao, Christine,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic : ECG
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations 7 colour illustrations

A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American CultureThis Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture - its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by es...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Gothic Histories, Gothic Identities
• 1. Gothic Monstrosity: Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly and the Trope of the Bestial Indian
• 2. Slavery and American Gothic: The Ghost of the Future
• 3. Ethno-gothic: Repurposing Genre in Contemporary American Literature
• Part II: Gothic Genres, Gothic Sites
• 4. Southern Gothic
• 5. The Devil in the Slum: American Urban Gothic
• 6. Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic
• Part III: Gothic Media
• 7. American Gothic Television
• 8. American Gothic Art
• 9. Doppelgamers: Video Games and Gothic Choice
• Part IV: American Creatures
• 10. Screening the American Gothic: Celluloid Serial Killers in American Popular Culture
• 11. American Vampires
• 12. Consumed out of the Good Land: The American Zombie, Geopolitics and the Post-War World
• Contributors
• Index