Additional Information
Book Details
Abstract
Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
---|---|---|---|
Series Editors’ Foreword | ix | ||
Acknowledgments | x | ||
Introduction | 1 | ||
American Gothic to the Civil War | 17 | ||
Realism’s Dark Twin | 65 | ||
American Gothic and Modernism | 122 | ||
Gothic in a Post-American World | 145 | ||
Conclusion | 187 | ||
A Note on Gothic Criticism | 188 | ||
Notes | 192 | ||
Works Consulted | 202 | ||
Index | 217 |