American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion

ISBN-13: 9781474401616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str.

Sears John Haslam Ja; Jason Haslam; Joel Faflak

Opis

This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture - its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, photography, and video games. Its scope ranges from the earliest manifestations of American Gothic traditions in frontier narratives and colonial myths, to its recent responses to contemporary global events.

Spis treści

Introduction, Joel Faflak & Jason Haslam; Part I: Gothic Histories, Gothic Identities; Gothic Monstrosity: Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Edgar Huntly’ and the Trope of the Bestial Indian, Christine Yao; Slavery and American Gothic, Jason Haslam; Ethno-gothic: Repurposing Genre in Contemporary American Literature, Arthur Redding; Part II: Gothic Genres, Gothic Sites; Southern Gothic, Christopher Lloyd; The Devil in the Slum: American Urban Gothic, Andrew Loman; Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic, Sherry R. Truffin; Part III: Gothic Media; American Gothic Television, Julia M. Wright; American Gothic Art, Christoph Grunenberg; Doppelgamers: Videogames and Gothic Choice, Michael Hancock; Part IV: American Creatures; Screening the American Gothic: Celluloid Serial Killers in American Popular Culture, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn; American Vampires, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock; Consumed out of the Good Land: The American Zombie, Geopolitics and the Post-War World, Linnie Blake.