Poe, “The House of Usher,” and the American Gothic

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The “Usher” Formula

   • Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

   Pages 1-18

3. Feminist “Usher”: Domestic Horror in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

   • Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

   Pages 19-37

4. Realistic “Usher”: Narrative Imagination and James’s The Turn of the Screw

   • Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

   Pages 39-61

5. Cosmic “Usher”: Lovecraft Adapts his “God of Fiction”

   • Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

   Pages 63-81

6. Haunted “Usher”: Moving toward Absolute Reality in The Haunting of Hill House

   • Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

   Pages 83-104

7. Maternal “Usher”: Bloch’s Psycho and the Blood-Stained Goddess of Death

   • Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

   Pages 105-129

8. Evil “Usher”: Rosemary’s Baby, Pop Culture, and the Evils of Consumerism

   • Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

   Pages 131-150

9. Ceremonial “Usher”: The Initiation of Jack Torrance and the Fall of the Overlook Hotel

   • Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

   Pages 151-174

10. Back Matter

    Pages 175-190

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Poe, 'The House of Usher,' and the American Gothic discusses the interrelation between Poe's tale and the modern horror genre, demonstrating how Poe's work continues to serve as a model for exploring the deepest and most primitive corners of the human mind and heart.

• America
• culture
• death
• fiction
• genre
• gothic
• imagination
• mind
• model

"Easily meeting the high standards that Gothic studies from Palgrave Macmillan have been setting in recent years, the main result is thus a readable, compelling, and useful contribution to Gothic studies generally and to the history of the American Gothic in particular." - NBOL-19

"Poe, The House of Usher, and the American Gothic is a welcome addition to the scholarly canons of Poe, the other writers included in their study, and the tradition of the American Gothic." - Tony Magistrale, Professor and Associate Chair of English, University of Vermont

Author Dennis R. Perry: Dennis R. Perry is an Associate Professor of Literature and Film at Brigham Young University, USA. Author Carl H. Sederholm: Carl H. Sederholm is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University, USA.

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