A companion to American gothic

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Part I Theorizing American Gothic

1 The Progress of Theory and the Study of the American Gothic / Jerrold E. Hogle

2 Gothic, Theory, Dream / David Punter 3 American Ruins and the Ghost Town Syndrome / Martin Prochazka

4 American Monsters / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

5 Creation Anxiety in Gothic Metafiction: The Dark Half and Lunar Park / Sherry R. Truffin

Part II Origins of American Gothic

6 The African American Slave Narrative and the Gothic / Teresa A. Goddu

7 Indian Captivity Narratives and the Origins of American Frontier Gothic / Matthew Wynn Sivils

8 Early American Gothic Drama / Benjamin F. Fisher

9 Charles Brockden Brown: Godfather of the American Gothic / Carol Margaret Davison

10 George Lippard and the Rise of the Urban Gothic / Chad Luck

Part III Classic American Gothic and Its Legacies

11 New England Gothic / Faye Ringel

12 Descendentalism and the Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and the Subversion of American Transcendentalism / Ted Billy

13 "Gigantic Paradox, Too ... Monstrous for Solution": Nightmarish Democracy and the Schoolhouse Gothic from "William Wilson" to The Secret History / Sherry R. Truffin

14 The Fall of the House, from Poe to Percy: The Evolution of an Enduring Gothic Convention / William Moss

15 Henry James's Ghosts / Andrew Smith

16 A Sisterhood of Sleuths: The Gothic Heroine, the Girl Detective, and Their Readers / Lynette Carpenter

17 They Are Legend: The Popular American Gothic of Ambrose Bierce and Richard Matheson / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Part IV American Gothic and Race

18 Is There an Indigenous Gothic? / Michelle Burnham

19 Gothic Transgressions: Charles W. Chesnutt, Conjure, and the Law / Justin D. Edwards

20 Undead Identities: Asian American Literature and the Gothic / Andrew Hock Soon Ng

Part V Gothic Modern and Postmodern

21 I Am Providence: H.P. Lovecraft / Faye Ringel

22 Awful Mystery: Flannery O'Connor as Gothic Artist / Chad Rohman

23 Not a Refuge Yet: Shirley Jackson's Domestic Hauntings / Dara Downey

24 The Strange Case of Joyce Carol Oates / Gavin Cologne-Brookes

25 "Identical Boxes Spreading like Gangrene": Defining the Suburban Gothic / Bernice M. Murphy

26 The Cold War Gothic Poetry of Sylvia Plath / Kathleen L. Nichols. 27 Sexuality and the Twentieth-Century American Vampire / William Hughes

28 Why Stephen King Still Matters / Tony Magistrale

29 The Ghost of the Counterfeit Child / Steven Bruhm

30 Toni Morrison's Gothic: Headless Brides and Haunted Communes / Maisha L. Wester

31 When the Blood Trail Comes Full Circle: Cormac McCarthy's Gothic of Guilt / Ronja Vieth

32 Becoming-Girl/Becoming-Fly/Becoming-Imperceptible: Gothic Posthumanism in Lynda Barry's Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel / Ellen E. Berry

33 Gothic Self-Fashioning in Gibson's Novels: Nature, Culture, Identity, Improvisation, and Cyberspace / John Whatley

34 Contemporary Women's Gothic: From Lost Souls to Twilight / Gina Wisker

35 Apocalyptic Gothic / Arthur Redding

Part VI Gothic in Other Media

36 The Darkest Nightmares Imaginable: Gothic Audio Drama from Radio to the Internet / Richard J. Hand

37 Film Noir and the Gothic / David Fine

38 The American Dream/The American Nightmare: American Gothic on the Small Screen / Carol Margaret Davison

39 Digital Games and the American Gothic: Investigating Gothic Game Grammar / Tanya Krzywinska

Part VII American Gothic and World Gothic

40 Self-Fragmentation, Diseased Landscapes, and other Enigmatic Engagements: American Gothic and the Literatures of East and Southeast Asia / Andrew Hock Soon Ng

41 Fluid Bodies: Gothic Transmutations in Carlos Fuentes' Fiction / Antonio Alcala Gonzalez

Let a New Gender In? American Responses to Contemporary Scandinavian Gothicism / Carol Siegel