This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.
This Companion explores the Gothic across literature, film, television, and cyberspace, revealing how it has proliferated since 1900 as an expression of modernity.
In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to ...
American Gothic, however, remaps the field by offering a series of revisionist essays associated with a common theme: the range and variety of Gothic manifestations in high and popular art from the roots of American culture to the present.
Taking Horror seriously, the book surveys America's bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.
Butler, Octavia E.,Adulthood Rites (New York;Warner, 1989). _____,Dawn (New York:Warner, 1987). _____,Fledgling (New York: Seven Stories, 2005). _____,Imago (New York:Warner, 1989). _____,Parable of the Sower (New York: Four Walls Eight ...
Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
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 theory, major authors, popular culture and non-print media available A ...
The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work.
American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation: anxiety about power and property.
The volume uses the best of current literary studies, from digital humanities to psychoanalytic theory, to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature.