Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
- The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
- The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Periods
- 1 Early American Gothic (Puritan and New Republic)
- 2 Romanticism and the American Gothic
- 3 American Gothic Realism and Naturalism
- 4 Modernist American Gothic
- 5 Contemporary American Gothic
- Part II Identities and Locations
- Part III Genre and Media
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
- References
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- The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
- The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
- The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Periods
- 1 Early American Gothic (Puritan and New Republic)
- 2 Romanticism and the American Gothic
- 3 American Gothic Realism and Naturalism
- 4 Modernist American Gothic
- 5 Contemporary American Gothic
- Part II Identities and Locations
- Part III Genre and Media
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
- References
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