Monika Elbert is Professor of English and a Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, USA. She is editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review and her recent publications include: Hawthorne in Context (2018) and, co-edited with Wendy Ryden, Haunting Realities:  Naturalist Gothic and American Realism (2017).Rita Bode is Professor of English Literature at Trent University, Canada. Her co-edited collections include L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) (2018) and L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1942 (2015).

• Introduction.- New England Gothic: Resisting Nation.- Nancy Sweet, “Gothic Woods and the Shining City on a Hill: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’”.- Melissa McFarland Pennell, “New England Gothic/New England Guilt: Mary Wilkins Freeman’s Giles Corey and the Salem Witchcraft Episode”.- Cécile Roudeau, “Sarah Orne Jewett’s New England Gothic:  ‘Lady Ferry’ and the Uncanny Durability of Colonial History”.- New England’s Landscapes and the Eco-Gothic.- Rita Bode, “Local Habitations as Gothic Terrain in Rose Terry Cooke”.- Daniel Mrozowski, “Hallowed Ground:  The Gothic New England of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman”.- Cynthia Murillo, “Life By Landscape: The Sublime and the Spectacle of Transcendence in the Gothic Fiction of Edith Wharton”.- Southern Gothic: Folklore, Superstition, Race.- Alicia Mischa Renfroe ‘That Dim Abode’: Uncanny Region in Rebecca Harding Davis’s “The Tragedy of Fauquier”.- Wendy Ryden, “Gothic Chopin: Negotiating Realism’s Divide in Bayou Folk”.- Ellen Weinauer, “The Gothic and the “Southern Lady”: Catherine Warfield’s The Household of Bouverie”.- Jeffrey Weinstock, “Haunted Homesteads:  E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Dual Gothic”.- Valerie Levy, ““Hoodoo and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston’s Gothic Folklore”.- West Coast Gothic.- Lesley Ginsberg, “Mary Austin’s California Gothic”.- Dara Downey, “Emma Frances Dawson’s Urban California Gothic”.-  Laura Laffrado, “’It Will Haunt the Reader after the Others have Faded into the Mists’: The Gothic West of Ella Rhoads Higginson’s ‘In the Bitter Root Mountains’”.- Laura Mielke, “Zitkala Sa’s Defiant Gothicism”.- Midwest Hauntings.- Monika Elbert, “Alice Cary and Margaret Fuller: Mundane Musings and Great Lakes Hauntings”.-  Stéphanie Durrans, “Specters of the Great Plains: Cather’s My Antonia as a Gothic Regionalist Novel”.-  Jane Anne Fleming, “Gothic Spaces and the “Homeland”: Resisting Exceptionalism in Constance FenimoreWoolson’s Tales of the Great Lakes and Reconstruction”.

Monika Elbert is Professor of English and a Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, USA. She is editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review and her recent publications include: Hawthorne in Context (2018) and, co-edited with Wendy Ryden, Haunting Realities:  Naturalist Gothic and American Realism (2017).Rita Bode is Professor of English Literature at Trent University, Canada. Her co-edited collections include L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) (2018) and L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1942 (2015).

• Introduction.- New England Gothic: Resisting Nation.- Nancy Sweet, “Gothic Woods and the Shining City on a Hill: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’”.- Melissa McFarland Pennell, “New England Gothic/New England Guilt: Mary Wilkins Freeman’s Giles Corey and the Salem Witchcraft Episode”.- Cécile Roudeau, “Sarah Orne Jewett’s New England Gothic:  ‘Lady Ferry’ and the Uncanny Durability of Colonial History”.- New England’s Landscapes and the Eco-Gothic.- Rita Bode, “Local Habitations as Gothic Terrain in Rose Terry Cooke”.- Daniel Mrozowski, “Hallowed Ground:  The Gothic New England of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman”.- Cynthia Murillo, “Life By Landscape: The Sublime and the Spectacle of Transcendence in the Gothic Fiction of Edith Wharton”.- Southern Gothic: Folklore, Superstition, Race.- Alicia Mischa Renfroe ‘That Dim Abode’: Uncanny Region in Rebecca Harding Davis’s “The Tragedy of Fauquier”.- Wendy Ryden, “Gothic Chopin: Negotiating Realism’s Divide in Bayou Folk”.- Ellen Weinauer, “The Gothic and the “Southern Lady”: Catherine Warfield’s The Household of Bouverie”.- Jeffrey Weinstock, “Haunted Homesteads:  E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Dual Gothic”.- Valerie Levy, ““Hoodoo and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston’s Gothic Folklore”.- West Coast Gothic.- Lesley Ginsberg, “Mary Austin’s California Gothic”.- Dara Downey, “Emma Frances Dawson’s Urban California Gothic”.-  Laura Laffrado, “’It Will Haunt the Reader after the Others have Faded into the Mists’: The Gothic West of Ella Rhoads Higginson’s ‘In the Bitter Root Mountains’”.- Laura Mielke, “Zitkala Sa’s Defiant Gothicism”.- Midwest Hauntings.- Monika Elbert, “Alice Cary and Margaret Fuller: Mundane Musings and Great Lakes Hauntings”.-  Stéphanie Durrans, “Specters of the Great Plains: Cather’s My Antonia as a Gothic Regionalist Novel”.-  Jane Anne Fleming, “Gothic Spaces and the “Homeland”: Resisting Exceptionalism in Constance FenimoreWoolson’s Tales of the Great Lakes and Reconstruction”.

Monika Elbert is Professor of English and a Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, USA. She is editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review and her recent publications include: Hawthorne in Context (2018) and, co-edited with Wendy Ryden, Haunting Realities:  Naturalist Gothic and American Realism (2017).Rita Bode is Professor of English Literature at Trent University, Canada. Her co-edited collections include L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) (2018) and L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1942 (2015).

• Introduction.- New England Gothic: Resisting Nation.- Nancy Sweet, “Gothic Woods and the Shining City on a Hill: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’”.- Melissa McFarland Pennell, “New England Gothic/New England Guilt: Mary Wilkins Freeman’s Giles Corey and the Salem Witchcraft Episode”.- Cécile Roudeau, “Sarah Orne Jewett’s New England Gothic:  ‘Lady Ferry’ and the Uncanny Durability of Colonial History”.- New England’s Landscapes and the Eco-Gothic.- Rita Bode, “Local Habitations as Gothic Terrain in Rose Terry Cooke”.- Daniel Mrozowski, “Hallowed Ground:  The Gothic New England of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman”.- Cynthia Murillo, “Life By Landscape: The Sublime and the Spectacle of Transcendence in the Gothic Fiction of Edith Wharton”.- Southern Gothic: Folklore, Superstition, Race.- Alicia Mischa Renfroe ‘That Dim Abode’: Uncanny Region in Rebecca Harding Davis’s “The Tragedy of Fauquier”.- Wendy Ryden, “Gothic Chopin: Negotiating Realism’s Divide in Bayou Folk”.- Ellen Weinauer, “The Gothic and the “Southern Lady”: Catherine Warfield’s The Household of Bouverie”.- Jeffrey Weinstock, “Haunted Homesteads:  E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Dual Gothic”.- Valerie Levy, ““Hoodoo and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston’s Gothic Folklore”.- West Coast Gothic.- Lesley Ginsberg, “Mary Austin’s California Gothic”.- Dara Downey, “Emma Frances Dawson’s Urban California Gothic”.-  Laura Laffrado, “’It Will Haunt the Reader after the Others have Faded into the Mists’: The Gothic West of Ella Rhoads Higginson’s ‘In the Bitter Root Mountains’”.- Laura Mielke, “Zitkala Sa’s Defiant Gothicism”.- Midwest Hauntings.- Monika Elbert, “Alice Cary and Margaret Fuller: Mundane Musings and Great Lakes Hauntings”.-  Stéphanie Durrans, “Specters of the Great Plains: Cather’s My Antonia as a Gothic Regionalist Novel”.-  Jane Anne Fleming, “Gothic Spaces and the “Homeland”: Resisting Exceptionalism in Constance FenimoreWoolson’s Tales of the Great Lakes and Reconstruction”.