American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474425550 ISBN 13: 9781474425551

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This new 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Jason Haslam is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Halifac, NS. Joel Faflak is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in London, ON.

Review:

American Gothic Culture is a fascinating snapshot of current trends in scholarship in this diverse field, replete with suggested further reading for the serious researcher.
-- Keith M.C. O'Sullivan, Reference Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1474425550
• ISBN 13: 9781474425551
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Faflak Joel, Haslam Jason