American gothic : new interventions in a national narrative /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Martin, Robert K., 1941-, Savoy, Eric
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1998]
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. Gothic revival (Literature) > United States. Horror tales, American > History and criticism. National characteristics, American, in literature. Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism. Women and literature > United States. Race relations in literature. Narration (Rhetoric)

Table of Contents:

Face of the tenant : a theory of American gothic / Eric Savoy
Nurture of the gothic, or how can a text be both popular and subversive? / William Veeder
Dr. Frankenstein meets Dr. Freud / Maggie Kilgour
Gothic import of Faulkner's "Black son" in Light in August / David R. Jarraway
On Stephen King's phallus, or the postmodern gothic / Steven Bruhm
Slavery and the gothic horror of Poe's "The black cat" / Lesley Ginsberg
Haunted by Jim Crow : gothic fictions by Hawthorne and Faulkner / Robert K. Martin
Looking into black skulls : American gothic, the revolutionary theatre, and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman / George Piggford
Ecstasy of apprehension : the gothic pleasures of sentimental fiction / Marianne Noble
Masochistic pleasures of the gothic : paternal incest in Alcott's "A marble woman" / Mary Chapman
If a building is a sentence, so is a body : Kathy Acker and the postcolonial gothic / C. Jodey Castricano
Making monsters, or serializing killers / Nicola Nixon
Some stations of suburban gothic / Kim Ian Michasiw.