Description: The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic offers an accessible overview to both the breadth and depth of the American Gothic tradition. This subgenre features works from many of America's best-known authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor. Authored by leading experts in the field, the introduction and sixteen chapters explore the American Gothic chronologically, in relation to different social groups, in connection with different geographic regions, and in different media, including children's literature, poetry, drama, film, television, and gaming. This Companion provides a rich and thorough analysis of the American Gothic tradition from a twenty-first-century standpoint, and will be a key resource undergraduates, graduate students, and professional researchers interested in this topic.
Brief description: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is an author or editor of twenty books. These include The Age of Lovecraft (2016, co-edited with Carl Sederholm) that won the 2017 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture from the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters (2014) that won the 2014 Rue Morgue magazine award for 'Best Non-Fiction Book', and The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema (2012) that won the 2013 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Lord Ruthven Assembly Award for Best Non-Fiction title.
Review Quotes: '... this volume is in fact a strong and valuable resource ... is essential reading and an unmissable resource for scholars of the eighteenth century.' Sören Hammerschmidt, Eighteenth-Century Studies