American Gothic
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General Studies
Abadi, Nagy Zoltan.“ “Gothic Fiction.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 6 (2000): 145-96.
Acceta, Michael Angelo. “Gothic Elements in the Early American Novel.” [GGI: 1299].
Anolik, Ruth Bienstock. “The Missing Mother: The Meanings of Maternal Absence in the Gothic Mode.“ Modern Language Studies 33:1-2 (2003): 24-43.
Anthony, David. “Banking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic.“ American Literature 76 (2004): 719-48.
Anthony, M. Susan. “‘Some Deed of Dreadful Note’: Productions of Gothic Dramas in the United States, 1790 to 1830.” Dissertation Abstracts International 58:9 (1998): 3366A (University of Maryland).
Anthony, M. Susan. “Made in America: Adaptations of British Gothic Plays for the American Stage.” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 8:3 (1996): 19-34.
Atwood, Thomas & Wade M. Lee. “The Price of Deviance: Schoolhouse Gothic in Prep School Literature.“ Children's Literature: Annual of the Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and the Children's Literature Association 35:1 (2007): 102-126. [GGIV: 0000].
Bailey, Dale Frederick. “The Haunted House Formula in American Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 59:1 (1998): 168A (University of Tennessee).
Bailey, Dale Frederick. American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction. Bowling Green , OH : Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1999.
Baker, Dorothy Z. America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007.
Banta, Martha. “American Apocalypses Excrement and Ennui.” [GGI: 1300].
Benton, Richard P. “The Problems of Literary Gothicism.” [GGI: 1301].
Betts, William Jr. “The Faust Tradition in American Literature.” [GGI: 1302].
Beutel, Katherine Piller. “Disembodied and Re-Embodied Voices: The Figure of Echo in American Gothic Texts.” Dissertation Abstracts International 54:9 (1994): 4090A (Ohio State).
Blackford, Holly. “Haunted Housekeeping: Fatal Attractions of Servant and Mistress in Twentieth Century Female Gothic Literature.” Literature Interpretation Theory 16 (2005): 233-61.
Boyd, J. Caleb. “Southernness, Not Otherness: The Community of the American South in New Southern Gothic Drama.“ Dissertation Abstracts International 65:7 (2005): 2433 (Florida State University)
Bradbury, Malcolm. “American Gothic.” [GGI: 1303].
Brogan, Kathleen. “American Stories of Cultural Haunting: Tales of Heirs and Ethnographers.” College English 57 (1995): 149-65.
Brown, Herbert Ross. The Sentimental Novel in America, 1789-1860. [GGI: 1304].
Buland, Mable. “Development of the Gothic novel in America .” Master’s Thesis, University of Washington , 1908.
Carbonell, Ana Maria. “Reconstructing Motherhood: The Female Gothic and Transcultural Strategies in African-American and Chicana Feminist Writings.” Dissertation Abstracts International, 57:10 (1997): 4367A (University of California, Santa Cruz).Carso, Kerry Dean. “Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature, 1800-1850.” Dissertation Abstracts International 62:2 (2001): 364.
Cartwright, Keith Allen. “Reading Africa into American Literature: Roots, Creole Routes, Garrulous Ghosts.” Dissertation Abstracts International 58:9 (1997): 3522 (Indiana University).Cartwright, Keith Allen. Reading Africa into American Literature: Ethics, Fables, and Gothic Tales. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Cassuto, Leonard D. “The American Grotesque.” [GGII: 0820].
Chiu, Neil. “Uncanny Doubles: Nationalism and Repression in Asian American Literature and African American Literature.” Dissertation Abstracts International 60:6 (1999): 2024 ( University of California, Berkeley).Coad, Oral. “The Gothic Element in American Literature Before 1835.” [GGI: 1306].
Coad, Oral. “Jersey Gothic.” [GGI: 1307].
Cowell, Pattie. “Class, Gender, and Genre: Deconstructing Social Formulas on the Gothic Frontier.” In Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. [GGII: 0821].
Curren, Erik David. “Bringing Horror Home; The Modern American Gothic.” Dissertation Abstracts International, 56:6 (1995): 2235A (University of California-Irvine).
Dahl, Curtis. “The American School of Catastrophe.” [GGI: 1308].Davis, David Brion. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860. [GGI: 1309].
Davis, Mike Lee. “Reading the text that isn’t there: Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel.” Dissertation Abstracts International 62:11 (2002): 223 (Princeton University).
Davis, Mike Lee. Reading the text that isn't there: Paranoia in the Nineteenth Century American Novel. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Dawes, James. “Fictional Feeling: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the American Gothic.” American Literature 76 (2004): 437-66.
Dimaggio, Richard S. “The Tradition of the Amer-ican Gothic Novel.” [GGI: 1310] .Dimic, Milan V. “Aspects of American and Canadian Gothicism.” [GGI: 1311].
Docherty, Brian. American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King. [GGII: 0822].
Edmundson, Mark. “American Gothic.” Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress 3:3 (May /June 1996): 48-55.
Edmundson, Mark. Nightmare on Main Street : Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Edwards, Justin D. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.
Egan, Kenneth. “Apocalypse Against Progress: Gothic and Pastoral Modes in the American Romance.” [GGII: 0823].
Emmons, Winfred S. Jr. “The Materials and Methods of American Horror Fiction in the Nineteenth Century.” [GGI: 1312].
Fieldler, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel. [GGI: 1315].
Fielder, Leslie. “Second Thoughts on Love and Death in the American Novel: My First Gothic Novel.” [GGI: 1316].
Folsom, James K. “Gothicism in the Western Novel.” In Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. [GGII: 0824].
Gibbons, Luke. “Ireland, America, and Gothic Memory: Terror in the Early Republic.“ Boundary 31 (2004): 25-47.
Gillespie, Gerald. “Rogues Fools and Satyrs: Ironic Ghosts in American Fiction.” In Modern American Fiction: Insights and Foreign Lights. [GGI: 1319].
Goddu, Teresa A. “The Haunted Text: Form and History in American Gothic.” [GGII: 0825].
Goddu, Teresa A. Gothic America : Narrative, History, and Nation. New York: Columbia UniversityPress, 1997.
Graff, Bennett. “Horror in Evolution: Determinism, Materialism, and Darwinism in the American Gothic.” Dissertation Abstracts International, 56:5 (1995): 1777A-78A (City University of New York).Green, Gary Lee. “The Language of Nightmare: A Theory of American Gothic Fiction.” [GGII: 0826].
Gross, Louis S. “The Transformed Land: Studies in American Gothic Narrative.” [GGII: 0827]
Gross, Louis S. Redefining the American Gothic: From Wieland to the Day of the Dead. [GGII: 0828].
Halttunen, Karen. Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UniversityPress, 1998.
Hardman, Marion P. “Terror in American Prose Fiction Prior to 1835.” [GGI: 1320] .Heller, Terry. The Delights of Terror: An Æsthetics of the Tale of Terror. [GGII: 0829].
Hillard, Thomas J. "Dark Nature: The Gothic Tradition of American Nature Writing." Dissertation Abstracts International 67:10 (2007): 3820 (University of Arizona). [GGIV: 0000].
Idiart, Jeannette and Jennifer SCHULZ, “American Gothic Landscapes: The New World to Vietnam.” (pp. 127-39). In Spectral Readings : Towards a Gothic Geography, eds. Glennis Byron and David Punter. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Ingebretsen, Edward J. Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell: Religious Terror as Memory from the Puritans to Stephen King. Armonk, NY and London : M.E. Sharpe, 1996 .
Kaminer, Wendy. “American Gothic.“ American Prospect 11:26 (2000): 38-39.
Karpinski, Joanne B. “The Gothic Underpinnings of Realism in the Local Colorists’ No Man’s Land.” In Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. [GGII: 0832]
Katratkis, Maria. “Gothic Patterns in American Short Fiction of the Nineteenth Century.” [GGII: 0833].
Kerr, Howard, John W. CROWLEY and Charles L. CROW. The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920. [GGII: 0834].
King, Stephen. Danse Macabre. [GGII: 0835].
Kramer, .Michael P. “Voices: An American Gothic Tale; or, My Life with Jewish Literature.” Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature 1 (2005): 5-16.
Lacombe, Alain. Le Roman noir americain. [GGII: 0836].
Lauric, Guillaud. La Terreur et le sacrée: La Nuit gothique américaine. Paris: Michel Houdiard. 2003.
Lewis, Hanna B. “The Catalytic Child Hero in the Contemporary Gothic Novel.” In The Hero in Transition. [GGII: 1439].
Lienard-Yetarian, Marie. “On the Gothic” (69-72). In Nouvelles de Sud: Hearing Voices, Reading Stories, eds. Marie Liénard-Yetarian, Gérald Préher. Paris: École Polytechnic, 2007.
Lienard-Yetarian, Marie. “The Gothic ‘Through the Pale Door’: Guidelines for Study" (73-78). In Nouvelles de Sud: Hearing Voices, Reading Stories, eds. Marie Liénard-Yetarian, Gérald Préher. Paris: École Polytechnic, 2007.
Liggins, Saundra K. “Authoring the Gothic: The Gothic Tradition of African-American Literature.“ Dissertation Abstracts International 64:7 (2004): 2492 (University of California, San Diego).
Lloyd-Smith, Alan Gardner. Uncanny American Fiction, Medusa’s Face. [GGII: 0837]
Lloyd-Smith, Alan Gardner. “American Gothic” (pp. 2-10). In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York : New York University Press, 1998.
Lloyd-Smith, Alan Gardner. “Nineteenth-Century American Gothic” (pp. 109-21). In A Companion to the Gothic, ed. David Punter. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
Lloyd-Smithy, Alan Gardner. American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction. New York & London: Continuum, 2004. [GGIV].
Loshie, Lillie Deming. “The Gothic and the Revolutionary.” In The Early American Novel. [GGI: 1323] .Lundie, Catherine Ann. “To Be Haunted; Ghost Stories by Post-Romantic American Women Writers.” Dissertation Abstracts International, 57:8 (1997): 3495A (University of Toronto).
Lutz, Deborah. “The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century“ (81-92). In Empowerment Versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Reviews of Popular Romance Novels, ed. Sally Goade. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
Magistrale, Tony and Michael A. MORRISON, eds. “Introduction” (pp. 1-8). To A Dark Night’s Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction, eds. Tony Magistrale and Michael A. Morrison. Columbia , SC : University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
Malin, Irving. New American Gothic. [GGI: 1324].
Malin, Irving. “American Gothic Images.” [GGI: 1325]
Martin, Robert K. and Eric SAVOY, eds. American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative. Io-wa City: Iowa University Press, 1998.
McIntyre, Rebecca C. “Promoting the Gothic South.” Southern Cultures 11:2 (2005): 33-61.
McLean, Clara Denison. “Improper Realizations: Gothic Materiality in American Texts.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:11 (2001): 4389 (University of California, Irvine).
McLean Clara Denison. American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque. Columbia, MO: Missouri University Press, 1990.
Meyers, Helene. “Femicidal Fears in Contemporary Fiction: Feminist Thought and the Female Gothic.” [GGII: 0839]
Michasiw, Kim Ian. “Some Stations of Suburban Gothic” (pp. 237-57). The American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative, eds. R.K. Martin and Eric Savoy. Iowa City: University Iowa Press, 1998.
Mills, Jerry Leath. “Equine Gothic: the Dead Mule as Generic Signifier in Southern Literature of the Twentieth Century.” Southern Literary Journal 29 (1997): 2-17.
Mogen, David. “Frontier Myth and American Gothic.” [GGI: 1326]
Mogen, David. “Wilderness, Metamorphosis, and Millennium: Gothic Apocalypse from the Puritans to the cyberpunks.” In Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. [GGII: 0840].
Moore, Michelle E. “Nothing More than Murder: Violent Representation in American Narrative and Film.” Dissertation Abstracts International 62:3 (2001): 1021 (SUNY at Binghamton).Morgenstern, Naomi Elizabeth. “Gothic Rehear-sals: Traumatic Origins and Spectral Returns in Twentieth-Century American Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 57:6 (1996): 2480A (Cornell University).
Noble, Marianne. “The American Gothic.“ (pp. 168-178). A Companion to American Fiction, ed. Shirley Samuels. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Norris, Darrell. “Evolving Landscapes of Horror: Recent Themes in American Fiction.” In Consumable Goods: Papers from the North East Popular Culture Association Meeting. [GGII: 0842]
Oates, Joyce Carol. ”Introduction” (pp. 1-9). To American Gothic Tales. New York : Penguin Books, 1996.
Oates, Joyce Carol. “Reflections on the Grotesque” (pp. 38-34). Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art. Cambridge , MA : MIT Press, 1997.
O’Leary, Crystal Laraine. “‘A Grave For This Book’: Textual fetishism in American Gothic from Brockden Brown to John Carpenter.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:6 (2000): 2304 (University of Louisiana at Lafayette).
Palmer, Louis Hooker III. “Pathologized Subjects: Southern Gothic, White Trash, and the Discourse of ‘Race’ in the 1930’s.” Dissertation Abstracts International 59:7 (1998): 2508A (Syracuse University).
Peters, Brian Mitchell. “Monstrous Desires: Homosexuality and the Gothic in Twentieth Century American Literature.“ Dissertation Abstracts International 64:7 (2004): 2480 (University of Montreal).
Phillips, George L. “The Gothic Element in the American Novel Before 1830.” [GGI: 1329]
Pitcher, Edward W.R. Recalling Fiction’s Cultural Contexts––Early Gothic and Utopian Romance: Cooper, Poe, Crane, Cather, Lawrence, Fitzgerald, and West. Lewiston, NY; Queenston, ON : Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Pribek, Thomas R. “Utility and Invention in Amer-ican Gothic Literature.” [GGII: 0843]
Quinn, Arthur Hobson. “Some Phases of the Supernatural in American Literature.” [GGI: 1330]
Rabinowitz, Stuart R. “Jewish-American Gothic.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:7 (2001): 2720 (University of Colorado at Boulder).
Radway, Janice. “The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and ‘Feminist’ Protest” (pp. 235-60). In Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline, ed. Lucy Maddox. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Ranieri, Marietta R. “The Self Behind the Self: The Americanization of the Gothic.” [GGI: 1331]
Redden, Maurita. The Gothic Fiction in the American Magazines. [GGI: 1332]
Ringe, Donald A. American Gothic: Imagination and Reason in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. [GGI: 1333].
Ringel, Faye. New England’s Gothic Literature: History and Folklore of the Supernatural from the Seventeenth Through the Twentieth Centuries. Lewiston, ME : Edwin Mellen, 1995.
Robillard, Douglas. American Supernatural Fiction: From Edith Wharton to the Weird Tales Writers. New York: Garland Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Number 6; Garland Publishing, 1996.
Rowe, Anne. “Honor, Chivalry, and the Gothic in the Southern Imagination.” [GGII: 0844].
Sahay, Vrunda Stampwala. “Re(Forming) the Republic: Gothic Negotiations of American Subjectivity from Revolution to Empire.” Dissertation Abstracts International 67:7 (2007): 2582 (University of California, Riverside).
Sanders, Scott P. “Southwestern Gothic: On the Frontier Between Landscape and Locale.” In Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. [GGII: 0845].
Savoy, Eric. “The Face of the Tenant: A Theory of American Gothic” (pp. 3-19). The American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative, eds. R.K. Martin and Eric Savoy. Iowa City: University Iowa Press, 1998.
Savoy, Eric. “The Rise of American Gothic” (pp. 167-88). In The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, ed. Jerrold E. Hogle. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Schachel, Robert C. “Textual Projections: The Emergence of a Postcolonial American Gothic.” Dissertation Abstracts International 67:7 (2007): 2582 (University of Florida).
Seidner-Kedar, Eva Helen. “‘Ghosts in the Air of America’: Transformation as Theme and Technique in North American Dark Romance.” [GGII: 0846]
Serova, V.N. “Traditsii Goticheskogo Romana v Americanskom Romantizme.” [GGI: 1334]
Shelden, Pamela J. “American Gothicism: The Evolution of a Mode.” [GGI: 1335].
Showalter, Elaine. “American Female Gothic.” In Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing. [GGII: 0847]
Sigmar, Lucia Ann Stretcher. “The Gothic Tradition in Southern Local Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 57:2 (1996): 685A (University of Tennessee).
Sloan, De Villo. “Influences of Industrialization on the Origin and Development of American Gothic Fiction.” [GGII: 0848].
Smith, B.R. “American Gothic: Tales of the Supernatural in Prime Time.“ Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 14 (2003): 77-85.
Smith, Greg Richard. “Dark Side of the Dream: The Social Gothic in Vietnam Era America.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:10 (2001): 4055 (Western Michigan University).
Smith, Greg Richard. “Ghostly Stories with or without Ghosts: The American Social Gothic.” Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association ( Silver Spring, MD ) (1998): 7: 79-88.
Sonser, Anna. A Passion for Consumption: The Gothic Novel in America. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001.
Sunshine, Kathleen. “From Castle to Cabin.” In Early American Literature and the Call of the Wild. [GGII: 0849].
Ten Broeke, Patricia A.M. “The Shadow of Satan: A Study of the Devil Archetype in Selected American Novels from Hawthorne to the Present Day.” [GGI: 1338].
Tennenhouse, Leonard. “The Gothic in Diaspora” (XXX). In The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Thompson, G.R. “The Apparition of This World: Transcendentalism and the American ‘Ghost Story.’” In Bridges to Fantasy. [GGII: 0850]
Truffin, Sherry Roxane. “Schoolhouse Gothic: Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship.” Dissertation Abstracts International 63:6 (2002): 2245 (Loyola University of Chicago).
Tucker, Amy. “America’s Gothic Landscape.” [GGI: 1340]
Voller, Jack. The Supernatural Sublime: The Metaphysics of Terror in Anglo-American Romanticism. Dekalb, IL : Northern Illinois University Press, 1994.
Wilber, Rhonda E. Morrow. “The Dearth in African-American Literature: A Social Psychological Analysis of the Missing Fiction Genres and the Correlation to the Major Social, Economic, and Mental Health Problems of the African-American Community and the Effects on Television Programming.” Dissertation Abstracts International 59:9 (1998): 3460A (Union Institute).
Wilczynski, Marek. The Phantom and the Abyss: The Gothic Fiction in America and Æsthetics of the Sublime 1798-1856. Frankfort and New York : Peter Lang; Polish Studies in English Language and Literature; Vol. 2, 1999.
Winter, Kari J. Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives. [GGII: 0851].
Yagi, Toshio. “Amerikan Goshikku n Tanjo.” In Shiro to Memai: Goshikkuo Yumu. [GGII: 0852] .
Yates, Jo Anne. “American Gothic: Sources of Terror in American Fiction Before the Civil War.” [GGI: 1342].