The Palgrave handbook of the Southern Gothic. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susan Castillo Street, Charles L. Crow, editors.
• Editors: Castillo, Susan P, 1948-; Crow, Charles L
• Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: EDGAR ALLAN POE AND HIS LEGACY -- 1. Edgar Allan Poe and the Southern Gothic; Tom F. Wright -- 2. Inside the Dark House: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! and Southern Gothic; Richard Gray -- 3. Dreamland: Antebellum Southern Women Poets and Poe; Paula Bernat Bennett -- 4. Southern Gothic: Haunted Houses; Carol Margaret Davison -- 5. The Globalisation of the Gothic South; Edward Sugden -- PART II: SPACE AND PLACE IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC -- 6. Gothic Landscapes of the South; Matthew Wynn Sivils -- 7. Southern Hauntings: Kate Chopin's Fiction; Janet Beer and Avril Horner -- 8. Gothic Appalachia; Sarah Robertson -- 9. New Immigration and the Southern Gothic; Nahem Yousaf -- 10. Flannery O'Connor and the Realism of Distance ; Éric Savoy -- 11. Florida Gothic: Shadows in the Sunshine State; Bev Hogue -- 12. Gothic Cuba and the Trans-American South; Ivonne M. Garcia -- 13. A Long View of History: Cormac McCarthy's Gothic Vision; Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. -- 14. New Orleans as Gothic Capital; Sherry R. Truffin -- 15. George Washington Cable and Grace King; Owen Robinson -- 16. Francophone Gothic Melodramas; Bill Marshall -- PART III: RACE AND SOUTHERN GOTHIC -- 17. Uncanny Plantations: The Repeating Gothic; Michael Kreyling -- 18. Slave Narratives and Slave Revolts; Maisha Wester -- 19. The Tragic Mulatto and Passing; Emily Clark -- 20. Law and the Gothic in the Slaveholding South; Ellen Weinauer -- 21. Charles Chesnutt's Reparative Gothic; Christine A. Wooley -- 22. Jim Crow Gothic: Richard Wright's Southern Nightmare; Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet -- 23. The Turn from the Gothic to Southern Liberalism in To Kill a Mockingbird; Michael L. Manson -- 24. Raising the Indigenous Undead; Eric Gary Anderson -- PART IV: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC TEXTS -- 25. Twisted Sisters: The Monstrous Women of Southern Gothic; Kellie Donovan-Condron -- 26. Ellen Glasgow's Gothic Heroes and Monsters; Mark Graves -- 27. The Gothic and the Grotesque in the Novels of Carson McCullers; Dara Downey -- 28. 'The room must evoke some ghosts': Tennessee Williams; Stephen Matterson -- 29. Truman Capote's Gothic Politics; Michael P. Bibler -- PART V: MONSTERS, VAMPIRES AND VOODOO -- 30. Southern Vampires: Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris and True Blood; Ken Gelder -- 31. Voodoo and Conjure as Gothic Realism; Anne Schroder -- 32. 'Nothing So Mundane as Ghosts': Eudora Welty and the Gothic; Sarah Ford -- 33. Talismans of Shadows and Mantles of Light: Contemporary Forms of the Southern Female Gothic; Peggy Dunn Bailey -- 34. Shadows on the Small Screen: The Televisuality and Generic Hybridity of Southern Gothic; Brigid Cherry -- 35. The Southern Gothic in Film: An Overview; David Greven -- Index.-
• Publisher Details: London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 505 pages .)
• Subjects: 813.0872909; Literature; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American -- History and criticism; Horror tales, American -- History and criticism; Fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American; Horror tales, American; Fiction -- General; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; History -- Social History; Fiction & related items; Films, cinema; Literary studies: from c 1900; Social & cultural history; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Southern States; Southern States; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137477743; 1137477741
• Related ISBNs: 1137477733; 9781137477736
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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