Dimensions
210 x 297 x 11mm
This is the first book in a series on literary genres - Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres.
It includes:
- a broad definition of the genre and its essential elements
- a time line of developments within the genre
- critical concerns to bear in mind while reading in the genre
- detailed readings of a range of texts
- in-depth analysis of major themes and issues.
This book offers students, writers, and serious fans a window into some of the most popular topics, styles and periods in this subject. Authors studied in American Gothic Fiction include Charles Brockden Brown, William Montgomery Bird, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Gilmore Simms, John Neal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ambrose Bierce, Emma Dawson, W.D. Howells, Henry James, William Faulkner, Anne Rice and William Gibson.
