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Notes on Contributors xi    Preface xvii     Acknowledgments xxiii     Part I Theorizing American Gothic 1     1 The Progress of Theory and the Study of the American Gothic 3  Jerrold E. Hogle     2 Gothic, Theory, Dream 16  David Punter     3 American Ruins and the Ghost Town Syndrome 29  Martin Prochazka     4 American Monsters 41  Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock     5 Creation Anxiety in Gothic Metafiction: The Dark Half and Lunar Park 56  Sherry R. Truffin     Part II Origins of American Gothic 69     6 The African American Slave Narrative and the Gothic 71  Teresa A. Goddu     7 Indian Captivity Narratives and the Origins of American Frontier Gothic 84  Matthew Wynn Sivils     8 Early American Gothic Drama 96  Benjamin F. Fisher     9 Charles Brockden Brown: Godfather of the American Gothic 110  Carol Margaret Davison     10 George Lippard and the Rise of the Urban Gothic 124  Chad Luck     Part III Classic American Gothic and Its Legacies 137     11 New England Gothic 139  Faye Ringel     12 Descendentalism and the Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and the Subversion of American Transcendentalism 151  Ted Billy     13    Gigantic Paradox, Too ... Monstrous for Solution   : Nightmarish Democracy and the Schoolhouse Gothic from    William Wilson    to The Secret History 164  Sherry R. Truffin     14 The Fall of the House, from Poe to Percy: The Evolution of an Enduring Gothic Convention 177  William Moss     15 Henry James   s Ghosts 189  Andrew Smith     16 A Sisterhood of Sleuths: The Gothic Heroine, the Girl Detective, and Their Readers 201  Lynette Carpenter     17 They Are Legend: The Popular American Gothic of Ambrose Bierce and Richard Matheson 212  Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet     Part IV American Gothic and Race 223     18 Is There an Indigenous Gothic? 225  Michelle Burnham     19 Gothic Transgressions: Charles W. Chesnutt, Conjure, and the Law 238  Justin D. Edwards     20 Undead Identities: Asian American Literature and the Gothic 249  Andrew Hock Soon Ng     Part V Gothic Modern and Postmodern 265     21 I Am Providence: H.P. Lovecraft 267  Faye Ringel     22 Awful Mystery: Flannery O   Connor as Gothic Artist 279  Chad Rohman     23 Not a Refuge Yet: Shirley Jackson   s Domestic Hauntings 290  Dara Downey     24 The Strange Case of Joyce Carol Oates 303  Gavin Cologne-Brookes     25    Identical Boxes Spreading like Gangrene   : Defining the Suburban Gothic 315  Bernice M. Murphy     26 The Cold War Gothic Poetry of Sylvia Plath 328  Kathleen L. Nichols     27 Sexuality and the Twentieth-Century American Vampire 340  William Hughes     28 Why Stephen King Still Matters 353  Tony Magistrale     29 The Ghost of the Counterfeit Child 366  Steven Bruhm     30 Toni Morrison   s Gothic: Headless Brides and Haunted Communes 378  Maisha L. Wester     31 When the Blood Trail Comes Full Circle: Cormac McCarthy   s Gothic of Guilt 392  Ronja Vieth     32 Becoming-Girl/Becoming-Fly/Becoming-Imperceptible: Gothic Posthumanism in Lynda Barry   s Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel 405  Ellen E. Berry     33 Gothic Self-Fashioning in Gibson   s Novels: Nature, Culture, Identity, Improvisation, and Cyberspace 418  John Whatley     34 Contemporary Women   s Gothic: From Lost Souls to Twilight 433  Gina Wisker     35 Apocalyptic Gothic 447  Arthur Redding     Part VI Gothic in Other Media 461     36 The Darkest Nightmares Imaginable: Gothic Audio Drama from Radio to the Internet 463  Richard J. Hand     37 Film Noir and the Gothic 475  David Fine     38 The American Dream/The American Nightmare: American Gothic on the Small Screen 488  Carol Margaret Davison     39 Digital Games and the American Gothic: Investigating Gothic Game Grammar 503  Tanya Krzywinska     Part VII American Gothic and World Gothic 517     40 Self-Fragmentation, Diseased Landscapes, and other Enigmatic Engagements: American Gothic and the Literatures of East and Southeast Asia 519  Andrew Hock Soon Ng     41 Fluid Bodies: Gothic Transmutations in Carlos Fuentes    Fiction 533  Antonio Alcala Gonzalez     42 Let a New Gender In? American Responses to Contemporary Scandinavian Gothicism 547  Carol Siegel     Index 559

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America's gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most complete coverage of theory, major authors, popular culture and non-print media available

A companion to American gothic