Overview

A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American Culture 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. Key Features Features original critical writing by established and emerging scholarsSurveys the full range of American Gothic, from its earliest texts to 21st Century worksIncludes critical analyses of American Gothic in new media and technologiesWill establish new benchmarks for the critical understanding of American Gothic traditions

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Author:   Joel Faflak (Professor of English and Theory, University of Western Ontario) ,  Jason Haslam (Associate Professor of English, Dalhousie University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781474425551

ISBN 10:   1474425550
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

Reviews

American Gothic Culture is a fascinating snapshot of current trends in scholarship in this diverse field, replete with suggested further reading for the serious researcher. -- Keith M.C. O'Sullivan, Reference Reviews

"This provocative collection sees 'culture' not just as the sum of its arts, but in its more primal sense of something that grows, matures, morphs, and rots. Placing contemporary American Culture in the petri dish of history, this book is a must for students of the Gothic and American Studies!--Western University ""Steven Bruhm"" American Gothic Culture is a fascinating snapshot of current trends in scholarship in this diverse field, replete with suggested further reading for the serious researcher.--Keith M.C. O'Sullivan, Aberdeen University Library ""Reference Reviews, 31:2"""

American Gothic Culture is a fascinating snapshot of current trends in scholarship in this diverse field, replete with suggested further reading for the serious researcher. -- Keith M.C. O'Sullivan, Reference Reviews

Author Information

Joel Faflak is Professor of English and Theory at the University of Western Ontario. He is author of Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery (SUNY, 2008), co-author (with Ross Woodman) of Revelation and Knowledge: The Psyche in Romanticism (U of Toronto Press, 2011), and editor or co-editor of numerous essay collections and anthologies, most recently Romanticism and the Emotions (Cambridge UP, 2016), with Richard C. Sha, and William Blake: Modernity and Disaster (U of Toronto Press, 2020), with Tilottama Rajan. Jason Haslam is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University, past-president of the Canadian Association for American Studies, and president-elect of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. He is the author of Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives (2005), and editor of The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope (2013; with Joel Faflak), Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century (2005; with Julia M. Wright), and scholarly editions of both Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes (2010) and Constance Lytton’s Prisons and Prisoners (2008).

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