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Chapter. Information. The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic , pp. 31 - 43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316337998.003. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 2017. Access options. Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below.
Sep 13, 2013 · American Gothic fiction has only recently been considered worthy of serious study. Before Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), such works were greatly deemphasized within the assumptions of New Criticism, “Old” Historicism, the History of Ideas, and the theories of literature and culture underpinning those movements.
A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century, and has been widely parodied in American popular culture.
Sep 13, 2013 · A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic; Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world
Sep 13, 2013 · This essay seeks to explore questions of space, place and time in the American Gothic. It does so by confronting “America” as a site of hybridity, where surfaces and depths intermingle.
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Feb 1, 2016 · This 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.
The Gothic has given voice to suppressed groups, and has provided an approach to taboo subjects such as miscegenation, incest and disease. The study of the Gothic offers a forum for discussing some of the key issues of American society, including gender and the nation’s continuing drama of race.
