Intro -- American Gothic Culture -- Copyright -- Contents -- PLATES -- Introduction -- Part I Gothic Histories, Gothic Identities -- 1 Gothic Monstrosity: Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly and the Trope of the Bestial Indian -- 2 Slavery and American Gothic: The Ghost of the Future -- 3 Ethno-gothic: Repurposing Genre in Contemporary American Literature -- II Gothic Genres, Gothic Sites -- 4 Southern Gothic -- 5 The Devil in the Slum: American Urban Gothic -- 6 Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic -- Part III Gothic Media -- 7 American Gothic Television -- 8 American Gothic Art -- 9 Doppelgamers: Video Games and Gothic Choice -- Part IV American Creatures -- 10 Screening the American Gothic: Celluloid Serial Killers in American Popular Culture -- 11 American Vampires -- 12 Consumed out of the Good Land: The American Zombie, Geopolitics and the Post-War World -- Contributors -- Index.
This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture..