American Gothic: An Anthology 1787–1916

by Charles L. Crow (Editor)

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This collection brings together, and sets into dialogue, Gothic works by a number of authors, men and women, black and white, which illuminate many of the deepest concerns and fears of nineteenth-century America.

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Charles L. Crow
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Charles L. Crow is Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA, and has been a visiting scholar or lecturer at universities in Austria, the Czech Republic, China, and Croatia. He edited the first edition of this volume for Blackwell in 1999 and has written monographs and articles on several nineteenth- and show more twentieth-century American writers. A founding member of the International Gothic Association, he is also editor of A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003). show less

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Alcott, Louisa May (Contributor)
Bierce, Ambrose (Contributor)
Brown, Charles Brockden (Contributor)
Cable, George Washington (Contributor)
Cary, Alice (Contributor)
Chesnutt, Charles W. (Contributor)
Chopin, Kate (Contributor)
Cooper, James Fenimore (Contributor)
Crane, Stephen (Contributor)
Dickinson, Emily (Contributor)
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence (Contributor)
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins (Contributor)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (Contributor)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Contributor)
Hearn, Lafcadio (Contributor)
Irving, Washington (Contributor)
James, Henry (Contributor)
Jewett, Sarah Orne (Contributor)
Lewis, Henry Clay (Contributor)
Lippard, George (Contributor)
London, Jack (Contributor)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Contributor)
Melville, Herman (Contributor)
Neal, John (Contributor)
Norris, Frank (Contributor)
Panther, Abraham (Contributor)
Poe, Edgar Allan (Contributor)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (Contributor)
Spofford, Harriet Prescott (Contributor)
Twain, Mark (Contributor)
Wharton, Edith (Contributor)

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Canonical title
American Gothic: An Anthology 1787–1916
Original title
American Gothic: An Anthology 1787–1916
Original publication date
1999
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The assumption behind this collection is this: the Gothic is a larger and more important part of the literature of the United States than is generally thought.

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  • Introduction

  • An Account o... (show all)f a Beautiful Young Lady / 'Abraham Panther'


  • Somnambulism / Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)


  • Rip Van Winkle / 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)

  • from The Prairie / James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

  • A Struggle for Life / Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)

  • Hop-frog / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  • The Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  • The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  • The Raven / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  • The City in the Sea / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  • Ulalume / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  • Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  • Dream-land / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  • Alice Doane's Appeal / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

  • Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

  • The Bell-Tower / Herman Melville (1819-1891)

  • The Wildermings / Alice Cary (1820-1871)

  • Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power / Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

  • The Amber Gods / Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

  • Through Lane It Lay, Through Bramble / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)


  • 'Tis So Appalling, It Exhilarates / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)


  • 'Twas Like a Maelstrom, with a Notch / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

  • The Soul Has Bandaged Moments / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

  • Did You Ever Stand in a Cavern's Mouth / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

  • One Need Not Be a Chamber, to be Haunted / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

  • What Mystery Pervades a Well! / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

  • In Winter in My Room / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

  • from Life on the Mississippi / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)

  • The Foreigner / Sara Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

  • Old Woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

  • Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

  • The Turn of the Screw / Henry James (1843-1916)

  • Desiree's Baby / Kate Chopin (1851-1904)

  • Po' Sandy / Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)

  • The Sheriff's Children / Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)

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

  • The Monster / Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

  • The Death of Halpin Frayser / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

  • Lauth / Frank Norris (1870-1902)

  • The Giant Wisteria / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

  • from The Sport of the Gods / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

  • Luke Havergal / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868-1935)

  • Lisette and Eileen / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868-1935)

  • The Dark House / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868-1935)

  • The Mill / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868-1935)

  • Souvenir / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868-1935)

  • Why He Was There / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868-1935)

  • The Ghostly Kiss / Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)

  • The Eyes / Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

  • Samuel / Jack London (1876-1916)

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English

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Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy
DDC/MDS
810.8 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English Anthologies and Collections
LCC
PS507 .A56 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature
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