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Informationen zum Autor 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 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). Klappentext 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 Bones"), 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," and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider." Zusammenfassung American Gothic remains an enduringly fascinating genre! retaining its chilling hold on the imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Authors x Chronology xi Thematic Table of Contents xv Preface to the Second Edition xxviii Editorial Principles xxix Acknowledgments xxx Introduction 1 Cotton Mather (1663--1728) 3 "The Tryal of G. B." 4 "The Trial of Martha Carrier" 8 A Notable Exploit; wherein ! Dux Faemina Facti [The Narrative of Hannah Dustan] 10 " Abraham Panther" 12 A surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady ... 12 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735--1813) 16 from Letters from an American Farmer : "Letter IX" 16 Charles Brockden Brown (1771--1810) 24 "Somnambulism: A Fragment" 24 Washington Irving (1783--1859) 36 "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 36 John Neal (1793--1876) 55 "Idiosyncrasies" 55 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864) 73 "Alice Doane ' s Appeal" 74 "Young Goodman Brown" 80 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882) 89 "The Skeleton in Armor" 89 Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) 94 "Hop-Frog" 94 "The Cask of Amontillado" 100 "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" 104 "The Fall of the House of Usher" 110 Five Poems 121 "The Raven" 121 "The City in the Sea" 124 "Ulalume" 125 "Annabel Lee" 127 "Dream-Land" 128 Herman Melville (1819--1891) 131 "The Bell-Tower" 131 George Lippard (1822--1854) 141 from The Quaker City; or! The Monks of Monk Hall 141 Henry Clay Lewis (1825--1850) 146 "A Struggle for Life" 146 Rose Terry Cooke (1827--1892) 152 "My Visitation" 152 Emily Dickinson (1830--1886) 164 Eight Poems 164 F 43 "Through lane it lay -- thro' bramble --" 164 F 340 "I felt a Funeral! in my Brain" 165 F 341 "...
