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Author:  Monika Elbert 

 American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic seeks to redress the monolithic vision of American Gothic by analyzing the various sectional or regional attempts to Gothicize what is most claustrophobic or peculiar about local history. Since women writers were often relegated to inferior status, it is especially compelling to look at women from the Gothic perspective. The regionalist Gothic develops along the line of difference and not unity—thus emphasizing regional peculiarities or a sense of superiority in terms of regional history, natural landscapes, immigrant customs, folk tales, or idiosyncratic ways.  The essays study the uncanny or the haunting quality of “the commonplace,” as Hawthorne would have it in his introduction to The House of the Seven Gables,  in regionalist Gothic fiction by a wide range of women writers between ca. 1850 and 1930.  This collection seeks to examine how/if the regionalist perspective is small, limited, and stultifying and leads to Gothic moments, or whether the intersection between local and national leads to a clash that is jarring and Gothic in nature.

American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. New England Gothic: Resisting Nation
2. The Uncanny Regionalism of Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance”
3. New England Gothic/New England Guilt: Mary Wilkins Freeman and the Salem Witchcraft Episode
4. Sarah Orne Jewett’s New England Gothic and the Uncanny Durability of Imperial History
Part II. New England’s Landscapes and the Ecogothic
5. Local Habitations as Gothic Terrain in Rose Terry Cooke
6. Hallowed Ground: The Gothic New England of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman
7. A New-England Kind of “Fetch”: The Vampire-Witch in Edith Wharton’s Gothic Fiction
Part III. Southern Gothic: Superstition, Race, Folklore
8. Haunted Homesteads: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Dual Gothic
9. “That Dim Abode”: Uncanny Region in Davis’s “The Tragedy of Fauquier”
10. The Gothic and the “Southern Lady”: Catherine Warfield’s The Household of Bouverie
11. Gothic Chopin: Negotiating Realism’s Divide in Bayou Folk
12. Hoodoo and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston’s Gothic Stories and Folktales
Part IV. Midwest Hauntings
13. Alice Cary’s Mundane Musings and Rural Hauntings
14. Gothic Spaces and the Nation in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Tales of the Great Lakes and Reconstruction
15. Specters of the Great Plains: My Ántonia as a Gothic Regionalist Novel
Part V. West Coast Gothic
16. Emma Frances Dawson’s Urban California Gothic
17. Mary Austin’s California Gothic
18. “It Will Haunt the Reader after the Others Have Faded into the Mist”: The Gothic West of Ella Rhoads Higginson’s “In the Bitter Root Mountains”
19. Zitkala-Ša’s Indigenous Gothicism

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