Gothic Other

Ruth Bienstock Anolik teaches at Villanova University and writes extensively on the Gothic mode. Her articles have been published in Modern Language Studies, Studies in Jewish Literature,, and other journals and collections. Douglas L. Howard is the Writing Center Coordinator and an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Suffolk County Community College in Selden, New York. His publications include articles in Literature and Theology, The Chronicle of Higher Education and This Thing of Ours: Investigating the Sopranos (Columbia University Press, 2002). He lives in Greenlawn, New York.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction: The Dark Unknown      PART I: DEMONIZING THE RACIAL OTHER, HUMANIZING THE SELF1. White Terror, Black Dreams: Gothic Constructions of Race in the Nineteenth Century      2. Slavery and Civic Recovery: Gothic Interventions in Whitman and Weld      3. Cane: Jean Toomer’s Gothic Black Modernism      4. Mixed Blood Couples: Monsters and Miscegenation in U.S. Horror Cinema      5. Diseased States, Public Minds: Native American Ghosts in Early National Literature      6. Yellow Peril, Dark Hero: Fu Manchu and the “Gothic Bedevilment” of Racist Intent      7. A Return to the Caves: E.M. Forster’s Gothic Passage      PART II: DEMONIZING THE RELIGIOUS OTHER, HUMANIZING THE SELF8. Gothic Routes, or the Thrills of Ethnography: Frances Calderon de la Barca’s Life in Mexico      1439. The Infamous Svengali: George Du Maurier’s Satanic Jew      PART III: DARK MASTER, DARK SLAVE: CLASS HATRED AND CLASS FEAR10. The Death of Zofloya; or, The Moor as Epistemological Limit      11. “The Vampyre”: Romantic Metaphysics and the Aristocratic Other      12. “Screaming While School Was in Session”: The Construction of Monstrosity in Stephen King’s Schoolhouse Gothic      PART IV: WHEN THE SELF IS THE OTHER: HUMANIZING THE OTHER, DEMONIZING THE OPRESSOR13. The Cage of Obscene Birds: The Myth of the Southern Garden in Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom      14. Gothic in the Himalayas: Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus      PART V: WHEN THE OTHER IS THE SELF: DECONSTRUCTING THE CATEGORIES15. Defanging Dracula: The Disappearing Other in Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula      289List of Contributors      Index