American Gothic - An Anthology From Salem Witchcraft to H. P. Lovecraft

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 xChronology xiThematic Table of Contents xvPreface to the Second Edition xxviiiEditorial Principles xxixAcknowledgments xxxIntroduction 1Cotton Mather (1663-1728) 3"The Tryal of G. B." 4"The Trial of Martha Carrier" 8A Notable Exploit; wherein , Dux Faemina Facti [The Narrative of Hannah Dustan] 10" Abraham Panther" 12A surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady ... 12J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) 16from Letters from an American Farmer : "Letter IX" 16Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) 24"Somnambulism: A Fragment" 24Washington Irving (1783-1859) 36"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 36John Neal (1793-1876) 55"Idiosyncrasies" 55Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) 73"Alice Doane ' s Appeal" 74"Young Goodman Brown" 80Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 89"The Skeleton in Armor" 89Edgar 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" 110Five Poems 121"The Raven" 121"The City in the Sea" 124"Ulalume" 125"Annabel Lee" 127"Dream-Land" 128Herman Melville (1819-1891) 131"The Bell-Tower" 131George Lippard (1822-1854) 141from The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall 141Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850) 146"A Struggle for Life" 146Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892) 152"My Visitation" 152Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 164Eight Poems 164F 43 "Through lane it lay - thro' bramble -" 164F 340 "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" 165F 341 " ' Tis so appalling - it exhilarates -" 165F 360 "The Soul has Bandaged m...

Table des matières

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 Crèvecoeur (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 " ' Tis so appalling - it exhilarates -" 165
 
F 360 "The Soul has Bandaged moments -" 166
 
F 407 "One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted -" 166
 
F 425 " ' Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch" 167
 
F 431 "If I may have it, when it ' s dead," 167
 
F 1433 "What mystery pervades a well!" 168
 
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) 170
 
"A Whisper in the Dark" 170
 
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) 194
 
"Her Story" 194
 
"Circumstance" 206
 
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) 215
 
"An Inhabitant of Carcosa" 215
 
"The Death of Halpin Frayser" 217
 
Henry James (1843-1916) 227
 
The Turn of the Screw 227
 
George Washington Cable (1844-1925) 290
 
"Jean-Ah Poquelin" 290
 
Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918) 304
 
"The Little Room" 304
 
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) 312
 
"The Foreigner" 312
 
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) 328
 
"Désirée ' s Baby" 328
 
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) 333
 
"Old Woman Magoun" 333
 
"Luella Miller" 344
 
Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) 353
 
"The Bell in the Fog" 353
 
Anonymous (Folk Tale) 367
 
"Talking Bones" 367
 
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) 368
 
"The Dumb Witness" 369
 
"The Sheriff ' s Children" 376
 
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) 387
 
"The Giant Wisteria" 387
 
"The Yellow Wall-Paper" 392
 
Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) 403
 
"The House That Was Not" 403
 
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) 406
 
"The Eyes" 406
 
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) 419
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Commentaire

"This excellent anthology provides an entertaining collection of gothic works of various genres written by both canonical authors, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, and less familiar American writers, such as Harriet Prescot Spofford and Ella Wilkinson Peattie ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates; general readers." (Choice, 1 January 2014)
 
"One of the main strengths of this collection lies in the fact that it places alongside the intelligent selection of extracts from authors already rightly well associated with the genre contributions from lesser known figures such as George Lippard. John Neal, Charles W. Chestnutt, and Cotton Mather, to name but a few. The edition also benefits greatly from a much greater acknowledgement of the traditionally underlooked contributions to the genre made by female authors... The anthology's thoughtful selection of texts and authors, and useful, practical, scholarly apparatus mean that it should be an immensely useful resource for anyone teaching on courses related to this ever-expanding and influential subsection of American literary studies." - Bernice Murphy, Trinity College Dublin

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Charles L. Crow
• Collaboration: Charles L Crow (Editeur), Charles L. (Bowling Green State University) Crow (Editeur)
• Edition: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 23.11.2012
• EAN: 9780470659793
• ISBN: 978-0-470-65979-3
• Pages: 550
• Thème: Blackwell Anthologies
• Catégorie: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre