American Gothic: From Salem Witchcraft to H. P. Lovecraft, An Anthology - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0470659793 ISBN 13 : 9780470659793

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

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The chilling creativity of the American Gothic has retained its power to attract readers since it burst onto the literary scene in the eighteenth century, yet it has been the object of serious scholarship for only a few decades. Edited by a founding member of the International Gothic Association, the new edition of this anthology incorporates the whole range of factual and imaginative writing, from Cotton Mather s account of the witchcraft trials in the colonial era, through the poetry of Poe, Dickinson, and Longfellow and unsettling tales both long (Henry James s The Turn of the Screw)and short (the anonymous Talking Bones ), to the beginning of modernism in the twentieth century.

The collection demonstrates the startling abundance of themes explored by these writers and reflects contemporary academic perspectives, with generous selections from genres such as feminist and wilderness Gothic. This new edition benefits from more than ten years of suggestions from readers and teachers while still offering prose and poetry from luminaries such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Jack London, and Edith Wharton. It includes recently unearthed as well as canonical material and provides an unflinching view of America s secrets and fears: the thoughts that have been repressed, silenced, or forbidden. All editorial materials have been revised for this new edition, which includes brand–new selections such as the captivity narrative of Hannah Dustan, Madeline Yale Wynne s The Little Room, Charlotte Perkins Gilman s The Yellow Wallpaper, and H. P. Lovecraft s The Outsider.

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This excellent anthology provides an entertaining collection of gothic works of various genres written by both canonical authors, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, and less familiar American writers, such as Harriet Prescot Spofford and Ella Wilkinson Peattie ... Summing Up: Recommended.  Lower–and upper–division undergraduates; general readers.   (Choice, 1 January 2014)

"One of the main strengths of this collection lies in  the fact that it places alongside the intelligent selection of extracts from authors already rightly well associated with the genre contributions from lesser known  figures such as George Lippard. John Neal, Charles W. Chestnutt, and Cotton Mather, to name but a few. The edition also benefits greatly from a much greater acknowledgement of the traditionally underlooked contributions to the genre made by female authors The anthology′s thoughtful selection of texts and authors, and useful, practical, scholarly apparatus mean that it should be an immensely useful resource for anyone teaching on courses related to this ever–expanding and influential subsection of American literary studies." – Bernice Murphy, Trinity College Dublin

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0470659793
• ISBN 13: 9780470659793
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 560