This volume presents one of the few book-length surveys of the genre available today, in a diverse collection of representative texts from a group of international critics.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
On Southern Gothic Literature.
Critical Contexts.
1: Defining Southern Gothic.
2: “Dark Legacy”: Gothic Ruptures in Southern Literature.
3: Flannery O'Connor and Harry Crews Get Naked.
4: The Road beyond Zombies of the New South.
Critical Readings.
5: Charles W. Chesnutt's Southern Gothic of Guilt.
6: Revealing Faulkner: Religious Fall in The Sound and the Fury.
7: Carson McCullers' Boardinghouse and the Architecture of Ruin.
8: “Southern Fried Fairy Tales”: Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom.
9: Sexuality, Insanity, and the Old South in Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer.
10: “Fantastic Terrors Never Felt Before”: Southern Gothic Poetry.
11: Cthulhu Visits the South, or Fred Chappell's Three Levels of Dagon.
12: Gothic Fear and Anxiety in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree.
13: “Anything Dead Coming Back to Life Hurts”: The Double Murder of Beloved.
