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 --...
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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 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 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, photography, and video games. Its scope ranges from the earliest manifestations of American Gothic traditions in frontier narratives and colonial myths, to its recent responses to contemporary global events.Key FeaturesFeatures original critical writing by established and emerging scholarsSurveys the full range of American Gothic, from its earliest texts to 21st Century worksIncludes critical analyses of American Gothic in new media and technologiesWill establish new benchmarks for the critical understanding of American Gothic traditions
