Frontier gothic : terror and wonder at the frontier in American literature / edited by David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, and Joanne B. Karpinski.
| Other author | Mogen, David, 1945- |
| Other author | Sanders, Scott Patrick. |
| Other author | Karpinski, Joanne B. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1993. |
| Description | 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Gothicism in the western novel / James K. Folsom -- No place to hide: Gothic naturalism in O.E. Rölvaag's Giants in the Earth / David S. Gross -- Southwestern gothic: On the frontier between landscape and locale / Scott P. Sanders -- "Grinning aboriginal demons": Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and the Indian's escape from gothic / Louis Owens -- Sam Shepard and frontier gothic / Mark Busby -- Wilderness, metamorphosis, and millenium: Gothic apocalypse from the Puritans to the cyberpunks / David Mogen -- Charles Brockden Brown and the frontiers of discourse / Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds. |
| Contents | (cont.) Class, gender, and genre: Deconstructing social formulas on the gothic frontier / Pattie Cowell -- The gothic underpinnings of realism in the local colorists' no man's land / Joanne B. Karpinski -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Giant Wistaria": A hieroglyph of the female frontier gothic / Gary Scharnhorst -- "The Giant Wistaria" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Rural gothic: The sublime rhetoric of Flannery O'Connor / Ronald Schleifer -- Language and the void: Gothic landscapes in the frontiers of Edgar Allan Poe / Stephen Mainville. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 91058580 |
| ISBN | 0838634893 (alk. paper) |