The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is an author or editor of twenty books. These include The Age of Lovecraft (2016, co-edited with Carl Sederholm) that won the 2017 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture from the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters (2014) that won the 2014 Rue Morgue magazine award for 'Best Non-Fiction Book', and The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema (2012) that won the 2013 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Lord Ruthven Assembly Award for Best Non-Fiction title.

'… this volume is in fact a strong and valuable resource … is essential reading and an unmissable resource for scholars of the eighteenth century.' Sören Hammerschmidt, Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Introduction. The American Gothic Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock; Part I. Periods: 1. Early American Gothic (Puritan and New Republic) Faye Ringel; 2. Romanticism and the American Gothic Alfred Bendixen; 3. American Gothic realism and naturalism Monika Elbert; 4. Modernist American Gothic John Paul Riquelme; 5. Contemporary American Gothic Justin D. Edwards; Part II. Identities and Locations: 6. Race and the American Gothic Ellen Weinauer; 7. American female Gothic Diane Long Hoeveler; 8. Queer American Gothic Ardel Haefele-Thomas; 9. American frontier Gothic Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds; 10. Southern American Gothic Charles L. Crow; 11. Urban American Gothic Lenny Cassuto; Part III. Genre and Media: 12. The Gothic in American children's literature Karen Coats; 13. Gothic American poetry Travis D. Montgomery; 14. Gothic American drama Heather S. Nathans; 15. Gothic American film and TV Carol Margaret Davidson; 16. Gothic American gaming Tanya Krzywinska; Index.