Title: American Gothic /
Authors: Crow, Charles L.
Publisher: University of Wales Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American History and criticism.; American fiction History and criticism; Literature and society United States History.
Abstract: From the Publisher: Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.
Contents: Series editor's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: American Gothic to the Civil War -- 2: Realism's dark twin -- 3: American Gothic and modernism -- 4: Gothic in a post-American world -- Conclusion -- Note on Gothic criticism -- Notes -- Work consulted -- Index.