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The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film; Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic

Erin Gentry

American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 635–637.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-037

Published: 01 September 2006

...Erin Gentry Duke University Press 2006 The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film . By Jack Morgan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 263 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic . By Justin D...

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The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature

Kenyon Gradert

American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 372–376.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267804

Published: 01 June 2020

... been noted that gothic literature was entangled with Catholicism from the start, O’Gorman highlights how this tradition opened up unique possibilities for American writers. Catholicism, he argues, proved to be an unsettling yet seductive gothic force in its potential to threaten American borders. First...

View articletitled, The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature

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Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861 The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature

Carrie Hyde

American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 855–858.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3711162

Published: 01 December 2016

... of literature—in this case, gothic literature—in relation to the singular unit of the people, the individual subject. Gothic Subjects builds on scholarship on the British gothic, which has examined the role the gothic played in establishing a “realist epistemological order . . . inhabited by characters whose...

View articletitled, Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861 The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature

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“Unstoppable” Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales

Alfred Hornung

American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 859–867.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-055

Published: 01 December 2006

... Southern and Spanish American Fiction . By Deborah N. Cohn. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt Univ. Press. 1999. x, 236 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.95. Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales . By Keith Cartwright. Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press. 2004. 270 pp...

View articletitled, “Unstoppable” Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales

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Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature; Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” (Series Q); Queer Gothic

Mark Fulk

American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 859–862.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-057

Published: 01 December 2007

...) . By Kathryn Bond Stockton. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. 217 pp. Paper, $22.95. Queer Gothic . By George E. Haggerty. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2006. x, 231 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $20.00. Book Reviews Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum...

View articletitled, Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature; Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” (Series Q); Queer Gothic

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The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy

David Schmid

American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 200–202.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865307

Published: 01 March 2015

...: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fic- tions. By Arthur Redding. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2011. xii, 149 pp. $ 27.50. Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature. By Brian Nor- man. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2013. viii, 223 pp...

View articletitled, The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy

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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 678–686.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722292

Published: 01 September 2019

... of money and the question of whether there is ever an authentic American literature. American Gothic Literature: A Thematic Study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead . By Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 2019. vii, 306 pp. Paper, $55.00. As a follow-up to her previous book...

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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 213–220.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865367

Published: 01 March 2015

...: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror. By James Goho. Lan- ham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2014. viii, 223 pp. Cloth, $80.00; e-book, $79.99. Although gothic literature began, as Goho writes, “as a sort of scream against the ruling order,” every gothic writer adds something new to this genre...

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The Gothic Origins of Global Health

Sari Altschuler

American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160894

Published: 01 September 2017

..., as the mocking cholera masks uncannily become the real faces of cholera’s sufferers. In the space of a few hours, cholera claimed its satirists as its victims. Farce is precisely what this gothic global health literature was written against and what it actively eschewed. A horrifying scene depicted by German...

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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 227–233.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-084

Published: 01 March 2011

.... American Literature, Volume 83, Number 1, March 2011 DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-084 © 2011 by Duke University Press 228 American Literature The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth- Century American Literature. By Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Burlington, Vt...

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As She Lay Dying: Locating the Gothic in Kaui Hart Hemmings’s The Descendants

Amber P. Hodge

American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 227–253.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003568

Published: 01 June 2021

... the Hawaiian narrative but also diffuses a haunted history long relegated to the southeastern states across the continent and the world’s largest ocean. A southern gothic analysis of Hawaiian literature produces reciprocal benefits for the genre and the fiction of Hawai‘i. In their introduction...

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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 229–238.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-093

Published: 01 March 2010

..., this book posits that Quaker culture offers an internal critique of modernity and American morality, and of the limits of national identity. Republicanism and the American Gothic. By Marilyn Michaud. Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press. 2009. 197 pp. $85.00. Gothic literature arose alongside one...

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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 451–458.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-019

Published: 01 June 2010

.... By Charles L. Crow. Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press. 2009. 235 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $25.00. Crow shows both how British gothic literature produced by such authors as Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe influenced the American tradition and how the history of the United States itself...

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Charles Brockden Brown and the Conundrum of Complicity

David Zimmerman

American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 665–693.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3711078

Published: 01 December 2016

... depends, in part, on how abnormal the circumstance attending it is. This is why gothic literature, which dominated the fiction market when Brown wrote his novels, serves as a powerful narrative tool for studying the conundrum of complicity. The “extraordinary and rare” behavior, freak events, and weird...

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Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953

Riché Richardson

American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 627–629.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-033

Published: 01 September 2006

... University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2006-036 The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film. By Jack Morgan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 263 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. By Justin D. Edwards. Iowa City: Univ...

View articletitled, Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953

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The Dime Novel in Children's Literature; The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate

Bonnie Gaarden

American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 631–633.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-035

Published: 01 September 2006

... by publishers willing to homogenize stories for readers seeking romance from regional writers, not politics. Victoria Ramirez, Weber State University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2006-036 The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film. By Jack Morgan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2002. xi...

View articletitled, The Dime Novel in Children's Literature; The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate

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