Gothic Landscapes

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Haunted Landscapes and Fearful Spaces—Expanding Views on the Geography of the Gothic

   • Sharon Rose Yang, Kathleen Healey

   Pages 1-18

3. Cross-Genre: Hideous Hybrids/Hybrids of Horror

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Dark Shadows in the Promised Land: Landscapes of Terror and the Visual Arts in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly

      • Kathleen Healey

      Pages 21-46

   3. Haunting Landscapes in “Female Gothic” Thriller Films: From Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles

      • Sheri Chinen Biesen

      Pages 47-69

   4. “Beauty Sleeping in the Lap of Horror”: Landscape Aesthetics and Gothic Pleasures, from The Castle of Otranto to Video Games

      • Alice Davenport

      Pages 71-103

4. Darkness in Unexpected Places: Not Your Grandmother’s Haunted Castle

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. What the Green Grass Hides: Denial and Deception in Suburban Detroit

      • Amber B. Vayo

      Pages 107-124

   3. “Go Steady, Undine!”: The Horror of Ambition in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country

      • Myrto Drizou

      Pages 125-145

   4. The Convent as Coven: Gothic Implications of Women-Centered Illness and Healing Narratives in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

      • Belinda M. Waller-Peterson

      Pages 147-168

   5. Haunting Memories: Gothic and Memoir

      • Erica Moore

      Pages 169-198

5. Gothic Social Landscapes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. The Indian Gothic

      • Nalini Pai

      Pages 201-223

   3. St. Bernard’s: Terrors of the Light in the Gothic Hospital

      • Christy Rieger

      Pages 225-238

   4. Nature Selects the Horla: How the Concept of Natural Selection Influences Guy de Maupassant’s Horror Tale

      • Sharon Rose Yang

      Pages 239-269

   5. Ruins of Empire: Refashioning the Gothic in J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun (1984)

      • Alex Watson

      Pages 271-291

   6. Gothic Landscapes in Mary Butts’s Ashe of Rings

      • Roslyn Reso Foy

      Pages 293-305

6. Back Matter

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This book is about the ways that Gothic literature has been transformed since the 18th century across cultures and across genres. In a series of essays written by scholars in the field, the book focuses on landscape in the Gothic and the ways landscape both reflects and reveals the dark elements of culture and humanity. It goes beyond traditional approaches to the Gothic by pushing the limits of the definition of the genre. From landscape painting to movies and video games, from memoir to fiction, and from works of different cultural origins and perspectives, this volume traverses the geography of the Gothic revealing the anxieties that still haunt humanity into the twenty-first century.

• Geography
• Psychology
• Topography
• Psychoanalysis
• Southern Gothic

• Worcester State University, Worcester, USA

  Sharon Rose Yang, Kathleen Healey

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.

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