{"product_id":"a-companion-to-american-gothic-9780470671870","title":"A Companion to American Gothic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* 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   .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xxiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Theorizing American Gothic 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Progress of Theory and the Study of the American Gothic 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJerrold E. Hogle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Gothic, Theory, Dream 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Punter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 American Ruins and the Ghost Town Syndrome 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartin Procházka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 American Monsters 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeffrey Andrew Weinstock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Creation Anxiety in Gothic Metafiction: \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Half \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLunar Park \u003c\/i\u003e56\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSherry R. Truffin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Origins of American Gothic 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The African American Slave Narrative and the Gothic 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeresa A. Goddu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Indian Captivity Narratives and the Origins of American Frontier Gothic 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthew Wynn Sivils\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Early American Gothic Drama 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenjamin F. Fisher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Charles Brockden Brown: Godfather of the American Gothic 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarol Margaret Davison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 George Lippard and the Rise of the Urban Gothic 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChad Luck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Classic American Gothic and Its Legacies 137\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 New England Gothic 139\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaye Ringel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Descendentalism and the Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and the Subversion of American Transcendentalism 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTed Billy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 “Gigantic Paradox, Too . . . Monstrous for Solution”: Nightmarish Democracy and the Schoolhouse Gothic from “William Wilson” to \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History \u003c\/i\u003e164\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSherry R. Truffin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Fall of the House, from Poe to Percy: The Evolution of an Enduring Gothic Convention 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Moss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Henry James’s Ghosts 189\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 A Sisterhood of Sleuths: The Gothic Heroine, the Girl Detective, and Their Readers 201\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLynette Carpenter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 They are Legend: The Popular American Gothic of Ambrose Bierce and Richard Matheson 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgnieszka Soltysik Monnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV American Gothic and Race 223\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Is There an Indigenous Gothic? 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichelle Burnham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Gothic Transgressions: Charles W. Chesnutt, Conjure, and the Law 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJustin D. Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Undead Identities: Asian American Literature and the Gothic 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Hock Soon Ng\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Gothic Modern and Postmodern 265\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 I Am Providence: H.P. Lovecraft 267\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaye Ringel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Awful Mystery: Flannery O’Connor as Gothic Artist 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChad Rohman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Not a Refuge Yet: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Hauntings 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDara Downey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Strange Case of Joyce Carol Oates 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGavin Cologne-Brookes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 “Identical Boxes Spreading like Gangrene”: Defining the Suburban Gothic 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernice M. Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Cold War Gothic Poetry of Sylvia Plath 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKathleen L. Nichols\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Sexuality and the Twentieth-Century American Vampire 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Why Stephen King Still Matters 353\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTony Magistrale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 The Ghost of the Counterfeit Child 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven Bruhm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Toni Morrison’s Gothic: Headless Brides and Haunted Communes 378\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaisha L. Wester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 When the Blood Trail Comes Full Circle: Cormac McCarthy’s Gothic of Guilt 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRonja Vieth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Becoming-Girl\/Becoming-Fly\/Becoming-Imperceptible: Gothic Posthumanism in Lynda Barry’s \u003ci\u003eCruddy: An Illustrated Novel \u003c\/i\u003e405\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEllen E. Berry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Gothic Self-Fashioning in Gibson’s Novels: Nature, Culture, Identity, Improvisation, and Cyberspace 418\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Whatley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Contemporary Women’s Gothic: From \u003ci\u003eLost Souls \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eTwilight \u003c\/i\u003e433\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGina Wisker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Apocalyptic Gothic 447\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArthur Redding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Gothic in Other Media 461\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 The Darkest Nightmares Imaginable: Gothic Audio Drama from Radio to the Internet 463\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard J. Hand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Film Noir and the Gothic 475\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Fine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 The American Dream\/The American Nightmare: American Gothic on the Small Screen 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarol Margaret Davison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Digital Games and the American Gothic: Investigating Gothic Game Grammar 503\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTanya Krzywinska\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII American Gothic and World Gothic 517\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Self-Fragmentation, Diseased Landscapes, and other Enigmatic Engagements: American Gothic and the Literatures of East and Southeast Asia 519\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Hock Soon Ng\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Fluid Bodies: Gothic Transmutations in Carlos Fuentes’ Fiction 533\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntonio Alcalá González\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Let a New Gender In? American Responses to Contemporary Scandinavian Gothicism 547\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarol Siegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 559\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402400801111,"sku":"9780470671870","price":131.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470671870.jpg?v=1730480288","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-american-gothic-9780470671870","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}