The Gothic other
Subtitle: racial and social constructions in the literary imagination
By: edited by Ruth Bienstock Anolik and Douglas L. Howard.
Contributors: Anolik, Ruth Bienstock, 1952-; Howard, Douglas L., 1966-
Publisher: McFarland & Co.; McFarland
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- English-speaking countries; American literature -- History and criticism; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Horror tales -- History and criticism; Social classes in literature; Race in literature; Fear in literature
Description: x, 310 p. ; 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: White terror, black dreams : Gothic constructions of race in the nineteenth century / Eugenia DeLamotte; title: Slavery and civic recovery : Gothic interventions in Whitman and Weld / Katherine Henry; title: Cane : Jean Toomer's Gothic black modernism / Daphne Lamothe; title: Mixed blood couples : monsters and miscegenation in U.S. horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider; title: Diseased states, public minds : Native American ghosts in early national literature / Renée L. Bergland; title: Yellow peril, dark hero : Fu Manchu and the "Gothic bedevilment" of racist intent / Karen Kingsbury; title: A return to the caves : E.M. Forster's Gothic passage / Douglas L. Howard; title: Gothic routes, or the thrills of ethnography : Frances Calderon de la Barca's life in Mexico / Soledad Caballero; title: The infamous Svengali : George du Maurier's satanic Jew / Ruth Bienstock Anolik; title: The death of Zofloya, or, The Moor as epistemological limit / Stephanie Burley; title: "The vampyre" : romantic metaphysics and the aristocratic other / Gavin Budge; title: "Screaming while school was in session" : the construction of monstrosity in Stephen King's Schoolhouse gothic / Sherry R. Truffin; title: The cage of obscene birds : the myth of the southern garden in Frederick Douglass's My bondage and my freedom / Joseph Bodziock; title: Gothic in the Himalayas : Powell and Pressburger's black Narcissus / John Stone; title: Defanging Dracula : the disappearing other in Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula / Erik Marshall.