American Gothic Culture

An Edinburgh Companion

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Av Jason Haslam, Joel Faflak, Joel Faflak, Jason Haslam, University of Western Ontario) Faflak, Joel (Professor of English and Theory, Dalhousie University) Haslam, Jason (Associate Professor of English

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A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American CultureThis 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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Utgivningsdatum2017-08-01
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Companions to the Gothic
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474425551

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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).

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.