American gothic : from Salem witchcraft to H.P. Lovecraft, an anthology / edited by Charles L. Crow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crow, Charles L.

ebrary, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

Gothic revival (Literature)--United States.

Gothic revival (Literature).

Fear.

Supernatural.

United States.

Supernatural--Literary collections.

Horror tales, American.

Fantasy literature, American.

Fear--Literary collections.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 519 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 Bonesö), 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,ö and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider." Book jacket.

Contents:

The trial of G.B. ; The trial of Martha Carrier ; A notable exploit, wherein, dux faemina facti (The narrative of Hannah Dustan) / Cotton Mather (1663-1728)

A surprising account of the discovery of a lady ... / Abraham Panther

Letter IX (from letters from an American farmer) / J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)

Somnambulism / Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)

The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Idiosyncrasies / John Neal (1793-1876)

From The Quaker city, or, the monks of Monk Hall / George Lippard (1822-1854)

The skeleton in armor / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

A struggle for life / Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)

Alice Doane's appeal ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Hop-frog ; The cask of Amontillado ; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar ; The fall of the house of Usher ; The raven ; The city in the sea ; Ulalume ; Annabel Lee ; Dream-land / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

The bell tower / Herman Melville (1819-1891)

My visitation / Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

Through lane it lay, through bramble ; I felt a funeral, in my brain ; 'Tis so appalling, it exhilarates ; The soul has bandaged moments ; One need not be a chamber to be haunted ; 'Twas like a maelstrom, with a notch ; If I may have it, when it's dead ; What mystery pervades a well! / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

A whisper in the dark / Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Her story ; Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

The death of Halpin Frayser ; An inhabitant of Carcosa / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

The turn of the screw / Henry James (1843-1916)

Jean-ah Poquelin / George Washington Cable (1844-1925)

The little room / Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918)

The foreigner / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin (1851-1904)

Old woman Magoun ; Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

The bell in the fog / Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948)

Talking bones / Anonymous (folk tale)

The sheriff's children ; The dumb witness / Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)

The giant wisteria ; The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

The house that was not / Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935)

The eyes / Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

In the court of the dragon / Robert W. Chambers (1865-1943)

Nancy Knapp ; Barry Holden / Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)

Luke Havergal ; Lisette and Eileen ; The dark house ; The mill ; Souvenir ; Why he was there / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Lauth / Frank Norris (1870-1902)

The monster / Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

The lynching of Rube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Chinnubbie and the owl / Alexander Posey (1873 -1908)

Samuel / Jack London (1876-1916)

The outsider / H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937).

Notes:

Previous edition: American gothic : an anthology, 1787-1916. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

844338464

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