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American Gothic remains an enduringly fascinating genre, retaining its chilling hold on the imagination. This revised and expanded anthology brings together texts from the colonial era to the twentieth century including recently discovered material, canonical literary contributions from Poe and Wharton among many others, and literature from sub-genres such as feminist and 'wilderness' Gothic.
Revised and expanded to incorporate suggestions from twelve years of use in many countries
An important text for students of the expanding field of Gothic studies
Strong representation of female Gothic, wilderness Gothic, the Gothic of race, and the legacy of Salem witchcraft
Edited by a founding member of the International Gothic Association
Charles L. Crow is Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA, and has been a visiting scholar or lecturer at universities in Austria, the Czech Republic, China, and Croatia. He edited the first edition of this volume for Blackwell in 1999 and has written monographs and articles on several nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers. A founding member of the International Gothic Association, he is also editor of A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003).
American Gothic remains an enduringly fascinating genre, retaining
its chilling hold on the imagination. This revised and expanded
anthology brings together texts from the colonial era to the
twentieth century including recently discovered material, canonical
literary contributions from Poe and Wharton among many others, and
literature from sub-genres such as feminist and
'wilderness' Gothic.
Revised and expanded to incorporate suggestions from twelve
years of use in many countries
An important text for students of the expanding field of Gothic
studies
Strong representation of female Gothic, wilderness Gothic, the
Gothic of race, and the legacy of Salem witchcraft
Edited by a founding member of the International Gothic
Association
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Charles L. Crow is Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA, and has been a visiting scholar or lecturer at universities in Austria, the Czech Republic, China, and Croatia. He edited the first edition of this volume for Blackwell in 1999 and has written monographs and articles on several nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers. A founding member of the International Gothic Association, he is also editor of A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003).
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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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Chronology
Date
Literary Event
Historical Event
1663
Cotton Mather b.
1689
Mather, Memorable Provinces, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions
1692
Salem Witch trials begin
1693
Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World
Witch trials end
1702
Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana
1728
Cotton Mather d.
1735
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur b.
1771
Charles Brockden Brown b.
1776
United States Declaration of Independence
1787
Anon., "An Account of a Beautiful Young Lady"
1794
William Godwin, Caleb Williams
1798
Brown, Wieland
1799
Brown, Arthur Mervyn , Ormond , Edgar Huntly
1782
Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
1783
Washington Irving b.
1787
U.S. Constitution signed
1793
John Neal b.
1803
Louisiana Purchase
1804
Nathaniel Hawthorne b.
1807
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow b.
1809
Edgar Allan Poe b.
1810
Charles Brockden Brown d.
1812
War with Britain
1813
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur d.
1818
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
1819
Irving, The Sketch Book begins serial publication
Herman Melville b.
1820
Missouri Compromise
1822
George Lippard b.
1825
Inhalt
List of Authors x
Chronology xi
Thematic Table of Contents xv
Preface to the Second Edition xxviii
Editorial Principles xxix
Acknowledgments xxx
Introduction 1
Cotton Mather (16631728) 3
The Tryal of G. B. 4
The Trial of Martha Carrier 8
A Notable Exploit; wherein, Dux Faemina Facti [The Narrative of Hannah Dustan] 10
Abraham Panther 12
A surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady 12
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (17351813) 16
from Letters from an American Farmer: Letter IX 16
Charles Brockden Brown (17711810) 24
Somnambulism: A Fragment 24
Washington Irving (17831859) 36
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 36
John Neal (17931876) 55
Idiosyncrasies 55
Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) 73
Alice Doane's Appeal 74
Young Goodman Brown 80
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) 89
The Skeleton in Armor 89
Edgar Allan Poe (18091849) 94
Hop-Frog 94
The Cask of Amontillado 100
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 104
The Fall of the House of Usher 110
Five Poems 121
The Raven 121
The City in the Sea 124
Ulalume 125
Annabel Lee 127
Dream-Land 128
Herman Melville (18191891) 131
The Bell-Tower 131
George Lippard (18221854) 141
from The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall 141
Henry Clay Lewis (18251850) 146
A Struggle for Life 146
Rose Terry Cooke (18271892) 152
My Visitation 152
Emily Dickinson (18301886) 164
Eight Poems 164
F 43 Through lane it lay thro' bramble 164
F 340 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 165
F 341 'Tis so appalling it exhilarates 165
F 360 The Soul has Bandaged moments 166
F 407 One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted 166
F 425 'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch 167
F 431 If I may have it, when it's dead, 167
F 1433 What mystery pervades a well! 168
Louisa May Alcott (18321888) 170
A Whisper in the Dark 170
Harriet Prescott Spofford (18351921) 194
Her Story 194
Circumstance 206
Ambrose Bierce (18421914?) 215
An Inhabitant of Carcosa 215
The Death of Halpin Frayser 217
Henry James (18431916) 227
The Turn of the Screw 227
**George Washington Cable (18441925…