American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion

American Gothic Culture

An Edinburgh Companion

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Edited by Jason Haslam, Joel Faflak

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: December 2017
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781474401623

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies

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This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture

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An Edinburgh Companion

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Miscellaneous Frontmatter
pp vii-x

Introduction
pp 1-22

Part I - Gothic Histories, Gothic Identities
pp 23-24

1 - Gothic Monstrosity: Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly and the Trope of the Bestial Indian
pp 25-43

2 - Slavery and American Gothic: The Ghost of the Future
pp 44-59

3 - Ethno-gothic: Repurposing Genre in Contemporary American Literature
pp 60-76

Part II - Gothic Genres, Gothic Sites
pp 77-78

4 - Southern Gothic
pp 79-91

5 - The Devil in the Slum: American Urban Gothic
pp 92-109

6 - Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic
pp 110-126

Part III - Gothic Media
pp 127-128

7 - American Gothic Television
pp 129-144

8 - American Gothic Art
pp 145-165

9 - Doppelgamers: Video Games and Gothic Choice
pp 166-184

Part IV - American Creatures
pp 185-186

10 - Screening the American Gothic: Celluloid Serial Killers in American Popular Culture
pp 187-202

11 - American Vampires
pp 203-221

12 - Consumed out of the Good Land: The American Zombie, Geopolitics and the Post-War World
pp 222-236

Contributors
pp 237-240

Index
pp 241-249

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