Gothic Landscapes

Introduction. Haunted Landscapes and Fearful Spaces: Expanding Views on the Geography of the Gothic; Sharon Rose Yang and Kathleen Healey.- PART I: CROSS-GENRE: HIDEOUS HYBRIDS/HYBRIDS OF HORROR.- 1. Dark Shadows in the Promised Land: Landscapes of Terror and the Visual Arts in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly; Kathleen Healey.- 2.Haunting Landscapes in "Female Gothic" Thriller Films: From Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles; Sheri Chinen Biesen.- 3. "Beauty Sleeping in the Lap of Horror":  Landscape Aesthetics and Gothic Pleasures, from The Castle of Otranto to Video Games; Alice Davenport.- PART II: DARKNESS IN UNEXPECTED PLACES: NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S HAUNTED CASTLE.- 4. What the Green Grass Hides: Denial and Deception in Suburban Detroit; Amber Vayo.- 5. "Go steady, Undine!": The Horror of Ambition in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country; Myrto Drizou.- 6. The Convent as Coven:  Gothic Implications of Women-Centered Illness and Healing Narratives in Toni Morrison's Paradise; Belinda M. Waller-Peterson.- 7. Haunting Memories: Gothic and Memoir; Erica Moore.- PART III: GOTHIC SOCIAL LANDSCAPES.- 8. The Indian Gothic; Nalini Pai.- 9. St. Bernard's: Terrors of the Light in the Gothic Hospital; Christy Rieger.- 10. Nature Selects the Horla: How the Concept of Natural Selection Influences Guy de Maupassant's Horror Tale; Sharon Rose Yang.- 11. Ruins of Empire: Refashioning the Gothic in J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun (1984); Alex Watson.- 12. Gothic Landscapes in Mary Butts's Ashe of Rings; Roslyn Reso Foy.- Index.-
 

Sharon Rose Yang is Professor of English at Worcester State University, USA. She both teaches and writes on the Gothic and nineteenth-century literature. She has published in nineteenth-century literature and is the author of Goddesses, Mages, and Wise Women: The Female Pastoral Guide in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century English Drama.
Kathleen Healey is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Worcester State University, USA. Her research includes literature and the visual arts, Gothic Literature, and American Literature.