American Gothic (eBook)

Charles L. Crow is Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA, and has been a visiting scholar or lecturer at universities in Austria, the Czech Republic, China, and Croatia. He edited the first edition of this volume for Blackwell in 1999 and has written monographs and articles on several nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers. A founding member of the International Gothic Association, he is also editor of A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003).

"This excellent anthology provides an entertaining
collection of gothic works of various genres written by both
canonical authors, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe,
and less familiar American writers, such as Harriet Prescot
Spofford and Ella Wilkinson Peattie ... Summing Up:
Recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates; general
readers." (Choice, 1 January 2014)

"One of the main strengths of this collection lies in the
fact that it places alongside the intelligent selection of extracts
from authors already rightly well associated with the genre
contributions from lesser known figures such as George
Lippard. John Neal, Charles W. Chestnutt, and Cotton Mather, to
name but a few. The edition also benefits greatly from a much
greater acknowledgement of the traditionally underlooked
contributions to the genre made by female authors... The
anthology's thoughtful selection of texts and authors, and useful,
practical, scholarly apparatus mean that it should be an immensely
useful resource for anyone teaching on courses related to this
ever-expanding and influential subsection of American literary
studies." - Bernice Murphy, Trinity College Dublin

"This anthology is comprehensive and authoritative and
will be an essential source for scholars and students for years to
come. Professor Crow is to be congratulated for the meticulous care
he has taken to introduce authors and for the extraordinary
inclusiveness of the material selected."--Dr Andrew
Smith, University of Sheffield

"This is the definitive anthology of American Gothic
tales, the one that offers the most representative range of major
authors and texts, in addition to excellent introductions and
helpful annotations. All of this has only been enhanced in
this Second Edition, since now there is even a wider range of
important Gothic works for students and more advanced scholars to
study and interpret. For reading and understanding the
American Gothic short story, then, there is no better single volume
anywhere." --Jerrold E. Hogle, University of
Arizona