This collection of thirteen essays on American literature and culture defines and examines a gothic tradition in frontier writing. As the imaginative border bet

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

The Gothic has always been interested in strange utterances and unsettling voices – from half-heard ghostly murmurings and the admonitions of the dead, to the

Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as with

The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political sp