Frontier gothic : terror and wonder at the frontier in American literature /
Mogen, David,1945-
Sanders, Scott Patrick.
Karpinski, Joanne B.
Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,
c1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gothicism in the western novel / James K. Folsom -- No place to hide: Gothic naturalism in O.E. Rölvaag's Giants in the Earth / David S. Gross -- Southwestern gothic: On the frontier between landscape and locale / Scott P. Sanders -- "Grinning aboriginal demons": Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and the Indian's escape from gothic / Louis Owens -- Sam Shepard and frontier gothic / Mark Busby -- Wilderness, metamorphosis, and millenium: Gothic apocalypse from the Puritans to the cyberpunks / David Mogen -- Charles Brockden Brown and the frontiers of discourse / Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds.
(cont.) Class, gender, and genre: Deconstructing social formulas on the gothic frontier / Pattie Cowell -- The gothic underpinnings of realism in the local colorists' no man's land / Joanne B. Karpinski -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Giant Wistaria": A hieroglyph of the female frontier gothic / Gary Scharnhorst -- "The Giant Wistaria" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Rural gothic: The sublime rhetoric of Flannery O'Conner / Ronald Schleifer -- Language and the void: Gothic landscapes in the frontiers of Edgar Allan Poe / Stephen Mainville.
American literature
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Horror tales, American