The Haunted States of America : Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American Fiction.
The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxieties, fears and concerns illustrated in the works of several post-World War II writers can be best understood through regional history and identity.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2022.
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| ISBN: | 9781786838780 1786838788 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: 'The Death of a Culture': Subversion of Monstrosity in the Southern Gothic
- Chapter 2: Hanging Women on the Hill: Exposure of Patriarchal Conformity in the New England Gothic
- Chapter 3: Haunted Grounds of Healing: Horrors of Normativity and Genocide in the Gothic Midwest
- Chapter 4: New York, New York ... : Greed and Abjection in the New York Gothic
- Chapter 5: Repressed Ramonas and Braceros: Return of the Oppressed in the Southern California Gothic
- Coda
- Notes