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9780631206521

American Gothic : An Anthology 1787-1916

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    9780631206521

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    0631206523

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-08-25
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This collection brings together, and sets into dialogue, Gothic works by a number of authors, men and women, black and white, which illuminate many of the deepest concerns and fears of nineteenth-century America.

Author Biography

Charles L. Crow if Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is co-editor of The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920 and of The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives, and author of numerous articles on such nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American authors as Howells, Clemens, Norris, London and Cather. He is past-president of the Frank Norris Society and is a founding member of the International Gothic Association.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1(2)
``Abraham Panther''
3(4)
An Account of a Beautiful Young Lady
3(4)
Charles Brockden Brown (1771--1810)
7(12)
Somnambulism
7(12)
Washington Irving (1783--1859)
19(11)
Rip Van Winkle
19(11)
John Neal (1793--1876)
30(18)
Idiosyncrasies
30(18)
George Lippard (1822--54)
48(5)
from The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall
48(5)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--82)
53(4)
The Skeleton in Armor
53(4)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789--1851)
57(8)
from The Prairie
57(8)
Henry Clay Lewis (1825--50)
65(6)
A Struggle for Life
65(6)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--49)
71(35)
Hop-Frog
71(5)
The Cask of Amontillado
76(5)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
81(5)
The Fall of the House of Usher
86(11)
The Raven
97(2)
The City in the Sea
99(2)
Ulalume
101(2)
Annabel Lee
103(1)
Dream-Land
104(2)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--64)
106(15)
Alice Doane's Appeal
106(7)
Young Goodman Brown
113(8)
Herman Melville (1819--91)
121(10)
The Bell-Tower
121(10)
Alice Cary (1820--71)
131(5)
The Wildermings
131(5)
Louisa May Alcott (1832--88)
136(61)
Behind a Mask; or, a Woman's Power
136(61)
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835--1921)
197(30)
The Amber Gods
197(30)
Emily Dickinson (1830--86)
227(6)
Through lane it lay -- through bramble
227(1)
``Tis so appalling -- it exhilarates
227(1)
``Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch
228(1)
The Soul Has Bandaged Moments
229(1)
Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth
229(1)
One need not be a Chamber -- to be haunted
230(1)
What mystery pervades a well!
230(1)
In Winter in my Room
231(2)
Samuel L. Clemens (MArk Twain) (1835--1910)
233(8)
from Life on the Mississippi
233(8)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849--1909)
241(15)
The Foreigner
241(15)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852--1930)
256(20)
Old Woman Magoun
256(11)
Luella Miller
267(9)
Henry James (1843--1916
276(63)
The Turn of the Screw
276(63)
Kate Chopin (1851--1904)
339(4)
Desiree's Baby
339(4)
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
343(17)
Po' Sandy
343(6)
The Sheriff's Children
349(11)
George Washington Cable (1844--1925)
360(13)
Jean-Ah Poquelin
360(13)
Stephen Crane (1871--1900)
373(35)
The Monster
373(35)
Ambrose Bierce (1842--1914?)
408(10)
The Death of Halpin Frayser
408(10)
Frank Norris (1870--1902)
418(16)
Lauth
418(16)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860--1935)
434(6)
The Giant Wisteria
434(6)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906)
440(7)
from The Sport of the Gods
440(7)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868--1935)
447(5)
Luke Havergal
447(1)
Lisette and Eileen
448(1)
The Dark House
449(1)
The Mill
450(1)
Souvenir
451(1)
Why He Was There
451(1)
Lafcadio Hearn (1850--1904)
452(2)
The Ghostly Kiss
452(2)
Edith Wharton (1862--1937)
454(12)
The Eyes
454(12)
Jack London (1876--1916)
466(12)
Samuel
466(12)
Bibliography 478(2)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines 480

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