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American Gothic Fiction

Author : Allan Lloyd-Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441190449
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book American Gothic Fiction written by Allan Lloyd-Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, American Gothic Fiction includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of developments within the genre. Critical concerns to bear in mind while reading in the genre. Detailed readings of a range of widely taught texts. In-depth analysis of major themes and issues. Signposts for further study within the genre. A summary of the most important criticism in the field. A glossary of terms. An annotated, critical reading list. This book offers students, writers, and serious fans a window into some of the most popular topics, styles and periods in this subject. Authors studied in American Gothic Fiction include Charles Brockden Brown, William Montgomery Bird, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Gilmore Simms, John Neal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ambrose Bierce, Emma Dawson, W.D. Howells, Henry James, William Faulkner, Anne Rice and William Gibson

Memoirs of a Gothic American

Author : Anne Kavanagh-Priest
Publisher : New York : The Macmillan Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Gothic American written by Anne Kavanagh-Priest and published by New York : The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1929 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Darkly

Author : Leila Taylor
Publisher : Repeater
ISBN 13 : 1912248557
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Darkly written by Leila Taylor and published by Repeater. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards Ñ the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly reveals the heart of AmericaÕs darkness in the specters left from chattel slavery and the persistence of white supremacy. Locating the gothic in technologies of terror, the insurgency of melancholy, and the guilty conscience of a country that got away with murder, Darkly shows how this trauma has been metabolized into art, music, film, and literature. America's story is founded in horror, with a culture shaped from the Black experience, proving that you canÕt get more goth than Black.

American Gothic

Author : Susan Wood
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683350979
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book American Gothic written by Susan Wood and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From humble beginnings sketching Iowa’s cornfields and rolling hills as a child, Grant Wood became the father of regionalism, an artistic movement that celebrated the simple and real-life surroundings of the people. When studying art in Europe in the early 20th century, Grant couldn’t find a style that touched his heart quite right. Impressionism, cubism, and abstract art didn’t reflect his view of the world. It wasn’t until he stumbled upon Gothic art that Grant recognized something familiar. Back home in America, Grant asked his sister and his dentist to pose for what would become the founding, iconic image of regionalism and a uniquely American work of art. Grant’s art celebrated hard-working Americans who finally saw themselves in fine art. American Gothic is a picture-book biography that explores the birth of the famous painting, the movement that made it possible, and the artist who created it all.

Hillbilly Gothic

Author : Adrienne Martini
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 9780743272766
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Hillbilly Gothic written by Adrienne Martini and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My family has a grand tradition. After a woman gives birth, she goes mad. I thought that I would be the one to escape." So begins Adrienne Martini's candid, compelling, and darkly humorous history of her family's and her own experiences with depression and postpartum syndrome. Illuminating depression from the inside, Martini delves unflinchingly into her own breakdown and institutionalization and traces the multigenerational course of this devastating problem. Moving back and forth between characters and situations, she vividly portrays the isolation -- geographical and metaphorical -- of the Appalachia of her forebears and the Western Pennsylvania region where she grew up. She also weaves in the stories of other women, both contemporary and historic, who have dealt with postpartum depression in all its guises, from fleeting "baby blues" to full-blown psychosis. Serious as her subject is, Martini's narrative is unfailingly engaging and filled with witty, wry observations on the complications of new motherhood: "It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it." New mothers and those who have struggled with parenthood -- whether or not they dealt with depression -- will find affirmation in this story of triumph, of escape from a difficult legacy, of hope for others, and of the courage to have another baby.

American Gothic Short Stories

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1787557464
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book American Gothic Short Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this next anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series. As with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Brockden Brown, George Washington Cable, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Ralph Adams Cram, Stephen Crane, Emma Dawson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ellen Glasgow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville, W.C. Morrow, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Clark Ashton Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Madeline Yale Wynne.

American Gothic Tales

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452274893
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book American Gothic Tales written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imagination makes for great literature in the works of forty-six exceptional writers. Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark psychological bonds between Henry James and Stephen King. In showing us the gothic vision—a world askew where mankind’s forbidden impulses are set free from the repressions of the psyche, and nature turns malevolent and lawless—Joyce Carol Oates includes Henry James’s “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” Herman Melville’s horrific tale of factory women, “The Tartarus of Maids,” and Edith Wharton’s “Afterward,” which are rarely collected and appear together here for the first time. Added to these stories of the past are new ones that explore the wounded worlds of Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Raymond Carver, and more than twenty other wonderful contemporary writers. This impressive collection reveals the astonishing scope of the gothic writer’s subject matter, style, and incomparable genius for manipulating our emotions and penetrating our dreams. With Joyce Carol Oates’s superb introduction, American Gothic Tales is destined to become the standard one-volume edition of the genre that American writers, if they didn’t create it outright, have brought to its chilling zenith.

Making Piece

Author : Beth M. Howard
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459225740
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book Making Piece written by Beth M. Howard and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You will find my story is a lot like pie, a strawberry-rhubarb pie. It's bitter. It's messy. It's got some sweetness, too. Sometimes the ingredients get added in the wrong order, but it has substance, it will warm your insides, and even though it isn't perfect, it still turns out okay in the end." When journalist Beth M. Howard's young husband dies suddenly, she packs up the RV he left behind and hits the American highways. At every stop along the way—whether filming a documentary or handing out free slices on the streets of Los Angeles—Beth uses pie as a way to find purpose. Howard eventually returns to her Iowa roots and creates the perfect synergy between two of America's greatest icons—pie and the American Gothic House, the little farmhouse immortalized in Grant Wood's famous painting, where she now lives and runs the Pitchfork Pie Stand. Making Piece powerfully shows how one courageous woman triumphs over tragedy. This beautifully written memoir is, ultimately, about hope. It's about the journey of healing and recovery, of facing fears, finding meaning in life again, and moving forward with purpose and, eventually, joy. It's about the nourishment of the heart and soul that comes from the simple act of giving to others, like baking a homemade pie and sharing it with someone whose pain is even greater than your own. And it tells of the role of fate, second chances and the strength found in community.

Wieland, Or the Transformation

Author : Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wieland, Or the Transformation written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1857 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Author : Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101221739
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by : Charles Brockden Brown

Download or read book Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1988-01-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

History of the Gothic: American Gothic

Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708322484
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book History of the Gothic: American Gothic written by Charles L. Crow and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.

Darkly

Author : Leila Taylor
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1912248557
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Darkly written by Leila Taylor and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards—the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly explores American culture’s inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning. If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is

Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker

Author : Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873383424
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often described as a "gothic novel," this is a classic American tale of mystery and murder with exciting and dramatic plot twists. Charles Brockden Brown is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820. This volume contains a critical edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, the third of his novels to be published in 1799 and the first to deal with the American wilderness. The basis of the text is the first edition, printed and published by Hugh Maxwell in Philadelphia late in the year, but the "Fragment" printed independently in Brown's Monthly Magazine earlier in 1799 supplies some readings in Chapters 17-20. The Historical Essay, which follows the text, covers matters of composition, publication, historical background, and literary evaluation, and the Textual Essay discusses the transmission of the text, choice of copy-text, and editorial policy. A general textual statement for the entire edition appears in Volume I of the series.

War Gothic in Literature and Culture

Author : Steffen Hantke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317383230
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book War Gothic in Literature and Culture written by Steffen Hantke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the "crucible" from which the Gothic genre emerged in the eighteenth century. Since then, the Gothic has been a privileged mode for representing violence and extreme emotions and situations. Covering the period from the American Civil War to the War on Terror, this collection examines how the Gothic has provided writers an indispensable toolbox for narrating, critiquing, and representing real and fictional wars. The book also sheds light on the overlap and complicity between Gothic aesthetics and certain aspects of military experience, including the bodily violation and mental dissolution of combat, the dehumanization of "others," psychic numbing, masculinity in crisis, and the subjective experience of trauma and memory. Engaging with popular forms such as young adult literature, gaming, and comic books, as well as literature, film, and visual art, War Gothic provides an important and timely overview of war-themed Gothic art and narrative by respected experts in the field of Gothic Studies. This book makes important contributions to the fields of Gothic Literature, War Literature, Popular Culture, American Studies, and Film, Television & Media.

A Companion to American Gothic

Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470671874
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to American Gothic written by Charles L. Crow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most complete coverage of theory, major authors, popular culture and non-print media available

All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned

Author : Erica Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625579713
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned written by Erica Wright and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "You don't need psychedelics or hypnosis. You don't need a shaman or any divine intervention. If it's a trip you're looking for, try Erica Wright's ALL THE BAYOU STORIES END WITH DROWNED. This is a book that warps the America we know into a mesmerizing weirdness. It scintillates the ordinary. Wright's lyricism, the fantastic juxtapositions in her diction and imagery all give us an alternate vision of our national moment. Equal parts surreal, sinister, and sincere, this is a place you definitely want to visit. It might just be the kind of place you need to live in."--Jaswinder Bolina

Hollywood Gothic

Author : David J. Skal
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429998458
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Gothic written by David J. Skal and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated edition of David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, "The ultimate book on Dracula" (Newsweek). The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. includes black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.