Table of Contents
Introduction.- New England Gothic: Resisting Nation.- Nancy Sweet, “Gothic Woods and the Shining City on a Hill: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’”.- Melissa McFarland Pennell, “New England Gothic/New England Guilt: Mary Wilkins Freeman’s
Giles Corey and the Salem Witchcraft Episode”.- Cécile Roudeau, “Sarah Orne Jewett’s New England Gothic: ‘Lady Ferry’ and the Uncanny Durability of Colonial History”.- New England’s Landscapes and the Eco-Gothic.- Rita Bode, “Local Habitations as Gothic Terrain in Rose Terry Cooke”.- Daniel Mrozowski, “Hallowed Ground: The Gothic New England of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman”.- Cynthia Murillo, “Life By Landscape: The Sublime and the Spectacle of Transcendence in the Gothic Fiction of Edith Wharton”.- Southern Gothic: Folklore, Superstition, Race.- Alicia Mischa Renfroe ‘That Dim Abode’: Uncanny Region in Rebecca Harding Davis’s “The Tragedy of Fauquier”.- Wendy Ryden, “Gothic Chopin: Negotiating Realism’s Divide in
Bayou Folk”.- Ellen Weinauer, “The Gothic and the “Southern Lady”: Catherine Warfield’s
The Household of Bouverie”.- Jeffrey Weinsk, “Haunted Homesteads: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Dual Gothic”.- Valerie Levy, ““Hoodoo and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston’s Gothic Folklore”.- West Coast Gothic.- Lesley Ginsberg, “Mary Austin’s California Gothic”.- Dara Downey, “Emma Frances Dawson’s Urban California Gothic”.- Laura Laffrado, “’It Will Haunt the Reader after the Others have Faded into the Mists’: The Gothic West of Ella Rhoads Higginson’s ‘In the Bitter Root Mountains’”.- Laura Mielke, “Zitkala Sa’s Defiant Gothicism”.- Midwest Hauntings.- Monika Elbert, “Alice Cary and Margaret Fuller: Mundane Musings and Great Lakes Hauntings”.- Stéphanie Durrans, “Specters of the Great Plains: Cather’s
My Antonia as a Gothic Regionalist Novel”.- Jane Anne Fleming, “Gothic Spaces and the “Homeland”: Resisting Exceptionalism in Constance FenimoreWoolson’s Tales of the Great Lakes and Reconstruction”.