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.

Offering a variety of critical approaches to late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, this collection provides a transnational view of the eme

American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation: anxiety about power and property.

This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastroph