A companion to American gothic / / edited by Charles L. Crow
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| Titolo: |
A companion to American gothic / / edited by Charles L. Crow
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| Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons Inc., , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (630 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.0872909 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - History and criticism |
| Gothic revival (Literature) - United States - History | |
| Altri autori: |
CrowCharles L
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Dedication""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""About the Book""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I: Theorizing American Gothic""; ""1: The Progress of Theory and the Study of the American Gothic""; ""Cross-References""; ""2: Gothic, Theory, Dream""; ""Cross-References""; ""3: American Ruins and the Ghost Town Syndrome""; ""Introduction: American Ruins as "Different Spaces"""; ""The Play of Substitutions: Ghost Towns in Recent American Literature"" |
| ""The Quasi-Eternity of Violence: Anasazi Ruins as the Ghost Town""""Cross-References""; ""4: American Monsters""; ""Monsters Are Other People: The American Monster as Cultural Other""; ""The Numinous American Monster""; ""Made in America: Monsters Made By Man""; ""Natural Monsters""; ""Cross-References""; ""5: Creation Anxiety in Gothic Metafiction: The Dark Half and Lunar Park""; ""Cross-References""; ""Part II: Origins of American Gothic""; ""6: The African American Slave Narrative and the Gothic""; ""Cross-References"" | |
| ""7: Indian Captivity Narratives and the Origins of American Frontier Gothic""""Cross-References""; ""8: Early American Gothic Drama""; ""Some Notable Achievements""; ""Cross-References""; ""9: Charles Brockden Brown: Godfather of the American Gothic""; ""Cross-References""; ""10: George Lippard and the Rise of the Urban Gothic""; ""Cross-References""; ""Part III: Classic American Gothic and Its Legacies""; ""11: New England Gothic""; ""Puritan Paranoia and Necromancy: A (Mainly) Male Gothic Tradition""; ""Something in the House: The Female Gothic Tradition in New England"" | |
| ""14: The Fall of the House, from Poe to Percy: The Evolution of an Enduring Gothic Convention""""Cross-References""; ""15: Henry James's Ghosts""; ""Cross-References""; ""16: A Sisterhood of Sleuths: The Gothic Heroine, the Girl Detective, and Their Readers""; ""Cross-References""; ""17: They Are Legend: The Popular American Gothic of Ambrose Bierce and Richard Matheson""; ""Cross-References""; ""Part IV: American Gothic and Race""; ""18: Is There an Indigenous Gothic?""; ""The Native American in American Gothic""; ""Native American Gothic""; ""Indigenous Gothic""; ""Cross-References"" | |
| ""19: Gothic Transgressions: Charles W. Chesnutt, Conjure, and the Law"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A companion to American gothic |
| ISBN: | 1-118-60839-9 |
| 1-118-60843-7 | |
| 1-118-60840-2 | |
| 1-118-60842-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910208821603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture