American Gothic: The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family-Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth.

1994 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Turner ◽  
Gene Smith
Keyword(s):  
American Gothic

American Gothic Culture

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Faflak
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Eighteenth Century Literature ◽  
Repressed Memories ◽  
American Gothic ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Frontier Narratives ◽  
Global Events

This Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture - its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known literary and other works. Its scope ranges from the earliest manifestations of American Gothic traditions in frontier narratives and colonial myths, to its recent responses to contemporary global events. Moving from analyses of eighteenth-century literature to twenty-first century video games, and touching upon visual art, film, and television, serial killers, monsters, education and cityscapes, this Companion aims to demonstrate the centrality of the gothic to American culture writ large through four key sections: Gothic Histories, Gothic Identities; Gothic Genres, Gothic Sites; Gothic Media; and American Creatures.

Speaking in Tongues, Speaking without Tongues: Transplanted Voices in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-552
Author(s):  
STEFAN SCHÖBERLEIN
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
American Gothic ◽  
Speaking In Tongues ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
Colonial Violence ◽  
Recent Claim

This essay examines an underexplored aspect of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland – namely its German–Indian context – and reads it through the story's main plot device: ventriloquism. Using some of Brown's manuscripts as well as journalistic pieces, the essay brings together the more puzzling aspects of this central US American gothic tale into a study of colonial violence and transplanted voices. Following Sarah Rivett's recent claim of a “spectral presence of American Indians” in the story, this essay argues for a rereading of the character of the “bioloquist” that brings to the surface a deep history of the dispossession of Native peoples (especially the Lenape) carefully interwoven into the novel's subtext.

American Gothic Television

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia M. Wright
Keyword(s):  
American Gothic ◽  
American Television ◽  
History Of

Examining works from the full history of American television, this chapter focuses on three aspects of American gothic television: first, the entwined relationship between realism and the gothic in early television; second, the focus of gothic series on probable characters in improbable situations; and, finally, the division of gothic television into conventional dramatic domestic and workplace forms, and their challenge to that dramatic division.

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