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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815094303321

Autore

Haslam Jason <1971->

Titolo

American gothic culture : an Edinburgh companion / / Jason Haslam and Joel Faflak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4744-1022-7

1-4744-2555-0

1-4744-1855-4

1-4744-0162-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh companions to the Gothic

Classificazione

HR 1822

Disciplina

810.8

Soggetti

American literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- American Gothic Culture -- Copyright -- Contents -- PLATES -- 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 -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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