American Gothic: An Anthology 1787-1916

Charles L. Crow

Wiley, Aug 25, 1999 - Literary Criticism - 496 pages

This collection brings together, and sets into dialogue, Gothic works by a number of authors, men and women, black and white, which illuminate many of the deepest concerns and fears of nineteenth-century America.

About the author

Charles L. Crow if Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is co-editor of The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920 and of The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives, and author of numerous articles on such nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American authors as Howells, Clemens, Norris, London and Cather. He is past-president of the Frank Norris Society and is a founding member of the International Gothic Association.

Bibliographic information

• Title: American Gothic: An Anthology 1787-1916; Blackwell Anthologies
• Editor: Charles L. Crow
• Publisher: Wiley, 1999
• ISBN: 0631206523, 9780631206521
• Length: 496 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Criticism / American / General