American Gothic: An Anthology from Salem Witchcraft to H. P. Lovecraft

ISBN-13: 9780470659793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 560 str.

Charles L. Crow

Opis

American Gothic remains an enduringly fascinating genre, retaining its chilling hold on the imagination. This revised and expanded anthology brings together texts from the colonial era to the twentieth century including recently discovered material, canonical literary contributions from Poe and Wharton among many others, and literature from sub-genres such as feminist and 'wilderness' Gothic.

• Revised and expanded to incorporate suggestions from twelve years of use in many countries
• An important text for students of the expanding field of Gothic studies
• Strong representation of female Gothic, wilderness Gothic, the Gothic of race, and the legacy of Salem witchcraft
• Edited by a founding member of the International Gothic Association

Recenzje

This excellent anthology provides an entertaining collection of gothic works of various genres written by both canonical authors, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, and less familiar American writers, such as Harriet Prescot Spofford and Ella Wilkinson Peattie ... Summing Up: Recommended.  Lower–and upper–division undergraduates; general readers.   (Choice, 1 January 2014)

"One of the main strengths of this collection lies in  the fact that it places alongside the intelligent selection of extracts from authors already rightly well associated with the genre contributions from lesser known  figures such as George Lippard. John Neal, Charles W. Chestnutt, and Cotton Mather, to name but a few. The edition also benefits greatly from a much greater acknowledgement of the traditionally underlooked contributions to the genre made by female authors The anthology′s thoughtful selection of texts and authors, and useful, practical, scholarly apparatus mean that it should be an immensely useful resource for anyone teaching on courses related to this ever–expanding and influential subsection of American literary studies." – Bernice Murphy, Trinity College Dublin

Spis treści

List of Authors x

Chronology xi

Thematic Table of Contents xv

Preface to the Second Edition xxviii

Editorial Principles xxix

Acknowledgments xxx

Introduction 1

Cotton Mather (1663 1728) 3

The Tryal of G. B. 4

The Trial of Martha Carrier 8

A Notable Exploit; wherein , Dux Faemina Facti [The Narrative of Hannah Dustan] 10

Abraham Panther 12

A surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady 12

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735 1813) 16

from Letters from an American Farmer : Letter IX 16

Charles Brockden Brown (1771 1810) 24

Somnambulism: A Fragment 24

Washington Irving (1783 1859) 36

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 36

John Neal (1793 1876) 55

Idiosyncrasies 55

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 1864) 73

Alice Doane s Appeal 74

Young Goodman Brown 80

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 1882) 89

The Skeleton in Armor 89

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849) 94

Hop–Frog 94

The Cask of Amontillado 100

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 104

The Fall of the House of Usher 110

Five Poems 121

The Raven 121

The City in the Sea 124

Ulalume 125

Annabel Lee 127

Dream–Land 128

Herman Melville (1819 1891) 131

The Bell–Tower 131

George Lippard (1822 1854) 141

from The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall 141

Henry Clay Lewis (1825 1850) 146

A Struggle for Life 146

Rose Terry Cooke (1827 1892) 152

My Visitation 152

Emily Dickinson (1830 1886) 164

Eight Poems 164

F 43 Through lane it lay thro bramble 164

F 340 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 165

F 341 Tis so appalling it exhilarates 165

F 360 The Soul has Bandaged moments 166

F 407 One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted 166

F 425 Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch 167

F 431 If I may have it, when it s dead, 167

F 1433 What mystery pervades a well! 168

Louisa May Alcott (1832 1888) 170

A Whisper in the Dark 170

Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835 1921) 194

Her Story 194

Circumstance 206

Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914?) 215

An Inhabitant of Carcosa 215

The Death of Halpin Frayser 217

Henry James (1843 1916) 227

The Turn of the Screw 227

George Washington Cable (1844 1925) 290

Jean–Ah Poquelin 290

Madeline Yale Wynne (1847 1918) 304

The Little Room 304

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 1909) 312

The Foreigner 312

Kate Chopin (1851 1904) 328

Désirée s Baby 328

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852 1930) 333

Old Woman Magoun 333

Luella Miller 344

Gertrude Atherton (1857 1948) 353

The Bell in the Fog 353

Anonymous (Folk Tale) 367

Talking Bones 367

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858 1932) 368

The Dumb Witness 369

The Sheriff s Children 376

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 1935) 387

The Giant Wisteria 387

The Yellow Wall–Paper 392

Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862 1935) 403

The House That Was Not 403

Edith Wharton (1862 1937) 406

The Eyes 406

Robert W. Chambers (1865 1933) 419

In the Court of the Dragon 419

Edgar Lee Masters (1868 1950) 425

Two Poems 425

Nancy Knapp 425

Barry Holden 425

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868 1935) 427

Six Poems 427

Luke Havergal 427

Lisette and Eileen 428

The Dark House 429

The Mill 430

Souvenir 431

Why He Was There 431

Frank Norris (1870 1902) 432

Lauth 432

Stephen Crane (1871 1900) 449

The Monster 449

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906) 483

The Lynching of Jube Benson 483

Alexander Posey (1873 1908) 488

Chinnubbie and the Owl 488

Jack London (1876 1916) 492

Samuel 492

H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft (1890 1937) 505

The Outsider 505

Select Bibliography 510

Index of Titles and First Lines 513

Index to the Introductions and Footnotes 515

O autorze

Charles L. Crow is Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA, and has been a visiting scholar or lecturer at universities in Austria, the Czech Republic, China, and Croatia. He edited the first edition of this volume for Blackwell in 1999 and has written monographs and articles on several nineteenth– and twentieth–century American writers. A founding member of the International Gothic Association, he is also editor of A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America (Wiley–Blackwell, 2003).

Blurb

The chilling creativity of the American Gothic has retained its power to attract readers since it burst onto the literary scene in the eighteenth century, yet it has been the object of serious scholarship for only a few decades. Edited by a founding member of the International Gothic Association, the new edition of this anthology incorporates the whole range of factual and imaginative writing, from Cotton Mather s account of the witchcraft trials in the colonial era, through the poetry of Poe, Dickinson, and Longfellow and unsettling tales both long (Henry James s The Turn of the Screw)and short (the anonymous Talking Bones ), to the beginning of modernism in the twentieth century.

The collection demonstrates the startling abundance of themes explored by these writers and reflects contemporary academic perspectives, with generous selections from genres such as feminist and wilderness Gothic. This new edition benefits from more than ten years of suggestions from readers and teachers while still offering prose and poetry from luminaries such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Jack London, and Edith Wharton. It includes recently unearthed as well as canonical material and provides an unflinching view of America s secrets and fears: the thoughts that have been repressed, silenced, or forbidden. All editorial materials have been revised for this new edition, which includes brand–new selections such as the captivity narrative of Hannah Dustan, Madeline Yale Wynne s The Little Room, Charlotte Perkins Gilman s The Yellow Wallpaper, and H. P. Lovecraft s The Outsider.