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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version : |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joel Faflak; Jason Haslam |
ISBN: | 9781474418553 1474418554 9781474410229 1474410227 9781474401623 1474401627 |
OCLC Number: | 1054394111 |
Notes: | Previously issued in print: 2016. |
Target Audience: | Specialized. |
Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
Contents: | Intro -- American Gothic Culture -- Copyright -- Contents -- PLATES -- Introduction -- Part I Gothic Histories, Gothic Identities -- 1 Gothic Monstrosity: Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly and the Trope of the Bestial Indian -- 2 Slavery and American Gothic: The Ghost of the Future -- 3 Ethno-gothic: Repurposing Genre in Contemporary American Literature -- II Gothic Genres, Gothic Sites -- 4 Southern Gothic -- 5 The Devil in the Slum: American Urban Gothic -- 6 Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic -- Part III Gothic Media -- 7 American Gothic Television -- 8 American Gothic Art -- 9 Doppelgamers: Video Games and Gothic Choice -- Part IV American Creatures -- 10 Screening the American Gothic: Celluloid Serial Killers in American Popular Culture -- 11 American Vampires -- 12 Consumed out of the Good Land: The American Zombie, Geopolitics and the Post-War World -- Contributors -- Index. |
Series Title: | Edinburgh companions to the gothic. |
Responsibility: | Jason Haslam and Joel Faflak. |
Abstract:
This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture - its repressed memories, its panics and anxieties, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. This collection offers discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, photography, and video games.
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