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

• Autore: Haslam Jason <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 810.8
• Soggetto topico: American literature
• Classificazione: HR 1822
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: American gothic culture
• ISBN: 1-4744-1022-7; 1-4744-2555-0; 1-4744-1855-4; 1-4744-0162-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815094303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Edinburgh companions to the gothic.