Early American Gothic Novels

Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly

James Fenimore Cooper: The Spy and any of the five Leatherstocking Tales

George Lippard: The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk Hall

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables

Henry Clay Lewis: Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor

Herman Melville: Moby-Dick

Louisa May Alcott: Behind a Mask: or, a Woman's Power

Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of Pointed Firs

Charles W. Chesnutt: The Conjure Woman

George Washington Cable: Old Creole Days

Frank Norris: Vandover and the Brute

Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Sport of the Gods

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome

American Gothic Antholigies

Beahm, George. ed. The Unauthorized Anne Rice Companion. Kansas City : Andrews and McMeel, 1996.

Crow, Charles L. ed. American Gothic: An Anthology 1787-1916. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 1999. PS507 .A56

Jaffe, Nora, and Patricia L. Skarda. eds. The Evil image: two centuries of Gothic short fiction and poetry. NY: New American Library, 1981. PR1111 .G67 E9

Mulvey-Roberts, Marie. ed. The handbook to Gothic literature. NY: New York UP, 1998. PN3435 .H35

Oates, Joyce Carol. ed. American Gothic Tales. NY: Plume, 1996.

Vinson, James. ed. Twentieth-century romance and gothic writers. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982. PR888 .L69 T86

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Books

Auerbach, Nina. Our Vampires, Ourselves. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. GR830 .V3 A92

Austin, Eliot, and Lawrence Eliot. Ghosts of the Gothic. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980. PR830.T3 W5

Axelrod, Alan. Charles Brockden Brown, an American tale. Austin: U of Texas P, 1983. PS1137 .A9

Bayer-Berenbaum, Linda. The Gothic imagination: expansion in Gothic literature and art. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1982. PR830 .T3 B39

Brooks, Michael W. New England Gothic: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles H. Moore, and Henry Adams. Washington, DC : National Gallery of Art, 1990.

Burns, Sarah. Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: U. of Calif. P, 2004.

Carpenter, Lynette, and Wendy K. Kolmar. eds. Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women. Knoxville : U of Tennessee P, 1991.

Fedorko, Kathy A. "Edith Wharton's Haunted Fiction: 'The Lady's Maid's Bell' and The House of Mirth." 80-107.

Castricano, Jodey. Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2001. (chapters on Poe and Stephen King)

Christophersen, Bill. The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic. Athens : U of Georgia P, 1993.

Clark, David L. Charles Brockden Brown, pioneer voice of America. Durham, N.C., Duke U P, 1952. PS1136 .C52

Clemens, Valdine. The return of the repressed: gothic horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien. Albany: State University of NY Press, 1999. PR830 .T3 C59

Day, William P. In the Circles of Fear and Desire: A Study of Gothic Fantasy. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.

DeLamotte, Eugenia C. Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic. NY: Oxford UP, 1990.

Docherty, Brian. ed. American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King. NY: St. Martin's, 1990.

Giddings, Robert. "Poe: Rituals of Life and Death." 33-58.

Lee, A. Robert. "A Darkness Visible: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown." 13-32.

Ellis, Kate F. The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1989.

Fedorko, Kathy A. Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton. Tuscaloosa : U of Alabama P, 1995. PS3545 .H16 Z647

Fisher, Benjamin F. The Gothic's Gothic: Study Aids to the Tradition of the Tale of Terror. NY: Garland, 1988.

Fleenor, Juliann E. The Female Gothic. Montreal: Eden Press 1983. PR830 .T3 F4

Goddu, Teresa A. Gothic America: Narrative, History and Nation. NY: Columbia UP, 1997.

Gross, Louis S. Redefining the American Gothic: from Wieland to Days of the Dead. Ann Arbor: U. M. I. Research P, 1989.

Haggerty, George F. Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form. University Park: U of Pennsylvania P, 1989.

Heller, Terry. The Delights of Terror: An Aesthetics of the Tale of Terror. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.

Hogle, Jerrold E. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Howard, Jacqueline. Reading Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach. NY: Oxford UP, 1994.

| Top | Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. translated by Leon S. Roudiez. NY: Columbia UP, 1982. PQ2607 .E834 Z73413

MacAndrew, Elizabeth. The Gothic tradition in fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1979. PN3435 .M3 (English fiction)

Magistrale, Tony. Landscape of Fear: Stephen King's American Gothic. Bowling Green, OH : Popular, 1988.

Martin Robert K. and Eric Savoy. eds. American Gothic: New Inventions in a National Narrative. Iowa City, IA : U of Iowa P, 1998.

Bruhm, Steven. "On Stephen King's Phallus: Or, the Postmodern Gothic," 75-96.

Castricano, C. Jodey. "If a Building Is a Sentence, So Is a Body: Kathy Acker and the Postcolonial Gothic." 202-14.

Chapman, Mary. "The Masochistic Pleasures of the Gothic: Paternal Incest in Alcott's 'A Marble Woman'." 183-201.

Ginsberg, Lesley. "Slavery and the Gothic Horror of Poe's 'The Black Cat.'" 99-128.

Jarraway, David R. "The Gothic Import of Faulkner's 'Black Son' in Light in August." 57-74.

Kilgour, Maggie. "Dr. Frankenstein Meets Dr. Freud." 40-53.

Martin, Robert K. "Haunted Jim Crow: Gothic Fictions by Hawthorne and Faulkner." 129-42.

Michasiw, Kim I. "Some Stations of Suburban Gothic." 237-57.

Nixon, Nicola. "Making Monsters, or Serializing Killers." 217-36.

Noble, Marianne. "An Ecstacy of Apprehension: The Gothic Pleasures of Sentimental Fiction." 163-82.

Piggford, George. "Looking into Black Skulls: American Gothic, the Revolutionary Theatre, and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman." 143-60.

Savoy, Eric. "The Face of the Tenant: A Theory of American Gothic." 3-19.

Veeder, William. "The Nurture of the Gothic: Or, How Can a Text Be Both Popular and Subversive?" 20-39.

Messent, Peter B. ed. Literature of the occult; a collection of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981. PR830.O33 L57

| Top | Mogen, David, Scott P. Sanders, and Joanne B. eds. Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. Rutherford, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1993.

Busby, Mark. "Sam Shepard and Frontier Gothic." 84-93.

Karpinski, Joanne B. "The Gothic Underpinnings of Realism in the Local Colorists' No Man's Land." 140-55.

Mussell, Kay. Women's gothic and romantic fiction: a reference guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981. PS374 .W6 M8

Punter, David. The literature of terror: a history of Gothic fictions from1765 to the present day. NY: Longmans, 1980. PR408.G68 P8

- - -. ed. A Companion to the Gothic. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2001.

Radcliffe, Elsa J. Gothic novels of the twentieth century: an annotated bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979. Z1231.F4 R32

Ringe, Donald A. American Gothic: imagination and reason in nineteenth-century fiction. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1982. PS374 .G68 R5

Ringel, Faye. New England's Gothic: History and Folklore of the Supernatural from the Seventeenth through the Twentieth Centuries. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen P, 1995.

Sedgwick, Eve K. The Coherence of Gothic Conventions. NY: Arno P, 1980.

Voller, Jack G. The Supernatural Sublime: The Metaphysics of Terror in Anglo-American Romanticism. DeKalb : Northern Illinois UP, 1994. PR457 .V65

Wardrop, Daneen. Emily Dickinson's Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge. Iowa City : U of Iowa P, 1996.

Weston, Ruth D. Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State UP, 1994.

Williams, Anne. Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. PR448 .G6 W55 (English literature)

Wolstenholme, Susan. Gothic (Re)Visions: Writing Women As Readers. Albany: State U of NY P, 1993.

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Articles

Adams, William. "American Gothic: Country, The River, Places in the Heart." Antioch Review 43.2 (Sprg 1985): 217-224.

Banta, Martha. "The Ghostly Gothic of Wharton's Everyday World." American Literary Realism 27.1 (Fall 1994): 1-10.

Berthold, Dennis. "Desacralizing the American Gothic: An Iconographic Approach to Edgar Huntly." Studies in American Fiction 14.2 (Autm 1986): 127-138.

Blau, Herbert. "The American Dream in American Gothic: The Plays of Sam Shepard and Adrienne Kennedy." Modern Drama 27.4 (Dec 1984): 520-539.

Bodziock, Joseph. "Richard Wright and Afro-American Gothic." Richard Wright: Myths and Realities. Ed. C. James Trotman. NY: Garland, 1988. 27-42.

Brennan, Matthew C. "Poe's Gothic Sublimity: Prose Style, Painting, and Mental Boundaries in 'The Fall of the House of Usher.'" Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 11.3 (Aug 1990): 353-59.

Burns, Margie. "A Good Rose Is Hard to Find: 'Southern Gothic' as Social Dislocation in Faulkner and O'Connor." Works and Days 6.1-2 (Sprg-Fall 1988): 185-201.

Cody, David C. "'The Dead Live Again': Hawthorne's Palingenic Art." ESQ 35.1 (1989): 23-41.

Curren, Erik D. "Should Their Eyes Have Been Watching God?: Hurston's Use of Religious Experience and Gothic Horror." African American Review 29.1 (Sprg 1995): 17-25.

Dawson, Hugh J. "Recovering 'Rip Van Winkle': A Corrective Reading." ESQ 40.3 (3rd Quarter): 251-73.

DeLamotte, Eugenia C. "Male and Female Mysteries in 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'" Legacy 5.1 (Sprg 1988): 3-14.

Elbert, Monika. "The Transcendental Economy of Wharton's Gothic Mansions." American Transcendental Quarterly 9.1 (Mar 1995): 51-67.

- - -. "Poe's Gothic Mother and the Incubation of Language." Poe Studies 26.1-2 (Jun-Dec 1993): 2, 22-33.

- - -. "T. S. Eliot and Wharton's Modernist Gothic." Edith Wharton Review 11.1 (Sprg 1994): 19-25.

Engell, John. "Hawthorne and Two Types of Early American Romance." South Atlantic Review 57.1 (Jan 1992): 33-51.

Fedorko, Kathy A. "'Forbidden Things': Gothic Confrontation with the Feminine in 'The Young Gentleman' and 'Bewitched.'" Edith Wharton Review 11.1 (Sprg 1994): 3-9. 

Gibbs, Kenneth. "Stephen King and the Tradition of American Gothic." Gothic 1 (1986): 6-14.

Halttunen, Karen. "Gothic Imagination and Social Reform: The Haunted Houses of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe." New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge : Cambridge UP, 1986. 107-34.

| Top | Hamelman, Steve. "Rhapsodist in the Wilderness: Brown's Romantic Quest in Edgar Huntly." Studies in American Fiction 21.2 (Autm 1993): 171-90.

Heller, Terry. "Mirrored Worlds and the Gothic in Faulkner's Sanctuary." Mississippi Quarterly 42.3 (Sumr 1989): 247-259.

Hoppenstand, Gary. "Ambrose Bierce and the Transformation of the Gothic Tale in the Nineteenth Century American Periodical." Periodical Literature in Nineteenth Century America. Eds. Kenneth M. Price and Susan B. Smith. Charlottesville : UP of Virginia, 1995. 220-38.

Hume, Robert D. "Gothic Versus Romantic: A Revaluation of the Gothic Form." PMLA 84 (1969): 282-90.

Johnson, Greg. "Gilman's Gothic Allegory: Rage and Redemption in 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'" Studies in Short Fiction 26.4 (Fall 1989): 521-30.

Jones, Robert B. "Gothic Conventions in Jean Toomer's 'The Eye.'" Studies in American Fiction 20.2 (Autm 1992): 209-17.

Kasper, Catherine. "Steven Millhauser's American Gothic." Denver Quarterly 36.3-4 ( Fall-Wint 2002): 88-93.

Link, Eric C. "Frank Norris's Blackwood Tale." Frank Norris Studies 23 (Sprg 1997): 4-6.

Lloyd Smith, Allan. "Hawthorne's Gothic Tales." Critical Essays on Hawthorne's Short Stories. Ed. Albert J. Van Frank. Boston : G. K. Hall, 1991. 232-43. PS 1888 .V65

Magistrale, Tony. "'More demon than man': Melville's Ahab as Gothic Villain; Sel. Essays from Sixth Internat. Conf. on Fantastic in Arts." Spectrum of the Fantastic. Ed. Donald Palumbo. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1988.

Masse, Michelle A. "Gothic Repetition: Husbands, Horrors, and Things That Go Bump in the Night." Signs 15.4 (Sumr 1990) 679-709.

McFatter, Susan P. "Parody and Dark Projections: Medieval Romance and the Gothic in McTeague." Western American Literature 26.2 (Aug 1991): 119-35.

Messent, Peter. "American Gothic: Liminality in Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter Novels." Journal of American and Comparative Cultures 23.4 (Wint 2000): 23-35.

| Top | Poger, Sidney, and Tony Magistrale. "Poe's Children: The Conjunction of the Detective and the Gothic Tale." Clues: A Journal of Detection 18.1 (Sprg 1997): 127-50.

Ringe, Donald A. "Early American Gothic: Brown, Dana and Allston." American Transcendental Quarterly 19 (1973): 3-8.

Rosowski, Susan J. "Willa Cather's American Gothic: Sapphira and the Slave Girl." Great Plains Quarterly 4.4 (Fall 1984): 220-230.

Sanders, Scott P. "Southwestern Gothic: Alienation, Integration, and Rebirth in the Works of Richard Shelton, Rudolfo Anaya, and Leslie Silko." Weber Studies 4.2 (Fall 1987): 36-53.

Savoy, Eric. "The Rise of American Gothic." The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Ed. Jerrold E. Hogle. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2002. 167-88.

Schleifer, Ronald. "The Trap of the Imagination: The Gothic Tradition, Fiction and The Turn of the Screw." The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew. Eds. Neil Cornwell and Maggie Malone. New York : St. Martin's, 1998.

Shaw, S. Bradley. "New England Gothic by the Light of Common Day: Lizzie Borden and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The Long Arm.'" New England Quarterly 70.2 (Jun 1997): 211-36.

Singley, Carol J. "Gothic Borrowings and Innovations in Edith Wharton's 'A Bottle of Perrier.'" Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays. Eds. Alfred Bendixen and Annette Zilversmit. New York : Garland, 1992. 271-90.

Smith, Stephanie A. "The Delicate Organisms and Theoretic Tricks of Henry James." American Literature 62.4 (Dec 1990): 583-605.

Stern, Julia. "Excavating Genre in Our Nig." American Literature 67.3 (Sep 1995): 439-66.

Sweeney, Gerard M. "Henry James's 'De Grey': The Gothic as Camouflage of the Medical." Modern Language Studies 21.2 (Sprg 1991): 36-44.

Thompson, G. R. "'Proper Evidences of Madness': American Gothic and the Interpretation of 'Ligeia'." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 66 (1972): 30-49.

Tombleson, Gary E. "Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' as Archetypal Gothic: Literary and Architectural Analogs of Cosmic Unity." Nineteenth Century Contexts 12.2 (Fall 1988): 83-106.

Unrue, Darlene H. "The Gothic Matrix of Look Homeward, Angel." Critical Essays on Thomas Wolfe. Ed. John S. Phillipson. Boston : Hall, 1985.

Wardrop, Daneen. "Emily Dickinson's Gothic Wedding: Dowered Bride and Absent Groom." American Transcendental Quarterly 10.2 (Jun 1996): 91-110. 

Weissberg, Liliane. "Gothic Spaces: The Political Aesthetics of Toni Morrison's Beloved." Modern Gothic: A Reader. Eds. Victor Sage and Allan L. Smith. Manchester, England: Manchester UP, 1996. 104-20.

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