American Gothic culture: an Edinburgh companion

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 es...

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Weitere Verfasser: Faflak, Joel 1959- (HerausgeberIn), Haslam, Jason W. 1971- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh companions to the Gothic
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:"Online publication date: December 2017" - Frontpage cambridge.org
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 249 Seiten, 2 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781474401623
DOI:10.1515/9781474401623