A companion to American gothic

 Content: Notes on Contributors xi Preface xvii  Acknowledgments xxiii   Part I Theorizing American Gothic 1   1 The Progress of Theory and the Study of the American Gothic 3  Jerrold E. Hogle   2 Gothic, Theory, Dream 16  David Punter   3 American Ruins and the Ghost Town Syndrome 29  Martin Prochazka   4 American Monsters 41  Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock   5 Creation Anxiety in Gothic Metafiction: The Dark Half and Lunar Park 56  Sherry R. Truffin    Part II Origins of American Gothic 69   6 The African American Slave Narrative and the Gothic 71  Teresa A. Goddu   7 Indian Captivity Narratives and the Origins of American Frontier Gothic 84  Matthew Wynn Sivils   8 Early American Gothic Drama 96  Benjamin F. Fisher   9 Charles Brockden Brown: Godfather of the American Gothic 110  Carol Margaret Davison   10 George Lippard and the Rise of the Urban Gothic 124  Chad Luck    Part III Classic American Gothic and Its Legacies 137   11 New England Gothic 139  Faye Ringel   12 Descendentalism and the Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and the Subversion of American Transcendentalism 151  Ted Billy   13 "Gigantic Paradox, Too ... Monstrous for Solution": Nightmarish Democracy and the Schoolhouse Gothic from "William Wilson" to The Secret History 164  Sherry R. Truffin   14 The Fall of the House, from Poe to Percy: The Evolution of an Enduring Gothic Convention 177  William Moss   15 Henry James's Ghosts 189  Andrew Smith   16 A Sisterhood of Sleuths: The Gothic Heroine, the Girl Detective, and Their Readers 201  Lynette Carpenter   17 They Are Legend: The Popular American Gothic of Ambrose Bierce and Richard Matheson 212  Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet    Part IV American Gothic and Race 223   18 Is There an Indigenous Gothic? 225  Michelle Burnham   19 Gothic Transgressions: Charles W. Chesnutt, Conjure, and the Law 238  Justin D. Edwards   20 Undead Identities: Asian American Literature and the Gothic 249  Andrew Hock Soon Ng    Part V Gothic Modern and Postmodern 265   21 I Am Providence: H.P. Lovecraft 267  Faye Ringel   22 Awful Mystery: Flannery O'Connor as Gothic Artist 279  Chad Rohman   23 Not a Refuge Yet: Shirley Jackson's Domestic Hauntings 290  Dara Downey   24 The Strange Case of Joyce Carol Oates 303  Gavin Cologne-Brookes   25 "Identical Boxes Spreading like Gangrene": Defining the Suburban Gothic 315  Bernice M. Murphy   26 The Cold War Gothic Poetry of Sylvia Plath 328  Kathleen L. Nichols   27 Sexuality and the Twentieth-Century American Vampire 340  William Hughes   28 Why Stephen King Still Matters 353  Tony Magistrale   29 The Ghost of the Counterfeit Child 366  Steven Bruhm   30 Toni Morrison's Gothic: Headless Brides and Haunted Communes 378  Maisha L. Wester   31 When the Blood Trail Comes Full Circle: Cormac McCarthy's Gothic of Guilt 392  Ronja Vieth   32 Becoming-Girl/Becoming-Fly/Becoming-Imperceptible: Gothic Posthumanism in Lynda Barry's Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel 405  Ellen E. Berry   33 Gothic Self-Fashioning in Gibson's Novels: Nature, Culture, Identity, Improvisation, and Cyberspace 418  John Whatley   34 Contemporary Women's Gothic: From Lost Souls to Twilight 433  Gina Wisker   35 Apocalyptic Gothic 447  Arthur Redding    Part VI Gothic in Other Media 461   36 The Darkest Nightmares Imaginable: Gothic Audio Drama from Radio to the Internet 463  Richard J. Hand   37 Film Noir and the Gothic 475  David Fine   38 The American Dream/The American Nightmare: American Gothic on the Small Screen 488  Carol Margaret Davison   39 Digital Games and the American Gothic: Investigating Gothic Game Grammar 503  Tanya Krzywinska    Part VII American Gothic and World Gothic 517   40 Self-Fragmentation, Diseased Landscapes, and other Enigmatic Engagements: American Gothic and the Literatures of East and Southeast Asia 519  Andrew Hock Soon Ng   41 Fluid Bodies: Gothic Transmutations in Carlos Fuentes' Fiction 533  Antonio Alcala Gonzalez   42 Let a New Gender In? American Responses to Contemporary Scandinavian Gothicism 547  Carol Siegel   Index 559