American Gothic Culture
An Edinburgh Companion
Sous la direction de Joel Faflak et Jason Haslam
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Description de l'ouvrage:
A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American Culture
This Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture – its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, photography, and video games. Its scope ranges from the earliest manifestations of American Gothic traditions in frontier narratives and colonial myths, to its recent responses to contemporary global events.
Key Features
• Features original critical writing by established and emerging scholars
• Surveys the full range of American Gothic, from its earliest texts to 21st Century works
• Includes critical analyses of American Gothic in new media and technologies
• Will establish new benchmarks for the critical understanding of American Gothic traditions
À propos des auteurs :
Joel Faflak is Professor of English and Theory at the University of Western Ontario. He is author of Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery (SUNY, 2008), co-author (with Ross Woodman) of Revelation and Knowledge: The Psyche in Romanticism (U of Toronto Press, 2011), and editor or co-editor of numerous essay collections and anthologies, most recently Romanticism and the Emotions (Cambridge UP, 2016), with Richard C. Sha, and William Blake: Modernity and Disaster (U of Toronto Press, 2020), with Tilottama Rajan.
Jason Haslam is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University, past-president of the Canadian Association for American Studies, and president-elect of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. He is the author of Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives (2005), and editor of The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope (2013; with Joel Faflak), Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century (2005; with Julia M. Wright), and scholarly editions of both Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes (2010) and Constance Lytton’s Prisons and Prisoners (2008).
Revue de Presse:
American Gothic Culture is a fascinating snapshot of current trends in scholarship in this diverse field, replete with suggested further reading for the serious researcher.– Keith M.C. O’Sullivan, Aberdeen University Library, Reference Reviews, 31:2
This provocative collection sees 'culture' not just as the sum of its arts, but in its more primal sense of something that grows, matures, morphs, and rots. Placing contemporary American Culture in the petri dish of history, this book is a must for students of the Gothic and American Studies!– Western University, Steven Bruhm
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