Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Gothic Histories, Gothic Identities
5. 1. Gothic Monstrosity: Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly and the Trope of the Bestial Indian 25
6. 2. Slavery and American Gothic: The Ghost of the Future 44
7. 3. Ethno-gothic: Repurposing Genre in Contemporary American Literature 60
8. Part II: Gothic Genres, Gothic Sites
9. 4. Southern Gothic 79
10. 5. The Devil in the Slum: American Urban Gothic 92
11. 6. Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic 110
12. Part III: Gothic Media
13. 7. American Gothic Television 129
14. 8. American Gothic Art 145
15. 9. Doppelgamers: Video Games and Gothic Choice 166
16. Part IV: American Creatures
17. 10. Screening the American Gothic: Celluloid Serial Killers in American Popular Culture 187
18. 11. American Vampires 203
19. 12. Consumed out of the Good Land: The American Zombie, Geopolitics and the Post-War World 222
20. Contributors 237
21. Index 241