TY - BOOK AU - Haslam,Jason AU - Blake,Linnie AU - Faflak,Joel AU - Fhlainn,Sorcha Ní AU - Grunenberg,Christoph AU - Hancock,Michael AU - Haslam,Jason AU - Lloyd,Christopher AU - Loman,Andrew AU - Redding,Arthur AU - Truffin,Sherry R. AU - Weinstock,Jeffrey Andrew AU - Wright,Julia M. AU - Yao,Christine TI - American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion T2 - Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic : ECG SN - 9781474401616 AV - PR830.T3 A46 2016 U1 - 813.0872909 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and society KW - United States KW - Popular culture KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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 --; Part 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American CultureThis 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 FeaturesFeatures 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474401623?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474401623 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474401623/original ER -