Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joanna E. Wood, Ambrose Bierce, J. Warren Newcomb (Jr), George Lippard, E. P. King, Kate Chopin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, George Washington Cable, Washington Irving, Robert William Chambers, ...
A dull light shined through the dirty window at the end of the hall. Ophelia guessed she was in a hotel. It might have been a dormitory or hospital, but somehow she knew it was a hotel. She began to move slowly down the hall, ...
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 ...
Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, ...
American Gothic is a picture-book biography that explores the birth of the famous painting, the movement that made it possible, and the artist who created it all.
The story behind one of the most famous paintings in American art. The stern, sober countenance of the elderly farmer. The quiet, loyal character of his prim wife. Few other...
Text: The Bell in the Fog, and Other Stories (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905). The Bell in the Fog The great author had realized one of the dreams of his ambitious youth, the possession of an ancestral hall in England.
American Gothic: Imagination and Reason in Nineteenth-century Fiction
Describes Grant Wood's portrait of Iowa farmers, and documents how the piece has represented midwestern Puritanism, hard-working endurance, and the often-parodied American heartland.
During the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, G. Gordon Gregg, a handsome physician, rents rooms in his newly constructed castle to young, beautiful, and wealthy women who mysteriously vanish. Reprint.
This new edition benefits from more than ten years of suggestions from readers and teachers while still offering prose and poetry from luminaries such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Jack London, and ...
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.
From the author of the acclaimed English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema, American Gothic presents an in-depth survey of the early years of the American horror film--ranging from the...
This collection brings together, and sets into dialogue, Gothic works by a number of authors, men and women, black and white, which illuminate many of the deepest concerns and fears of nineteenth-century America.
Richly detailed and emotionally insightful, American Gothic is a “ripping good tale” that brings to life the true story behind a family tragedy of Shakespearean proportions (The New York Times).
Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, ...
After becoming a vampire in 1863, Nathaniel Peregrine tries to reclaim his humanity by saving the life of Helen Fairweather, a woman who makes him yearn for a mortal life once more.
American Gothic