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History of the Gothic: American Gothic

History of the Gothic: American Gothic

Charles L. Crow

(2009)

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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