Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction: Haunted by the Dark (Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature). This item is unavailable.Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction: Haunted by the Dark (Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature)

The twelve Gothic tales of this collection span the nineteenth-century South and are from some of the most famous writers of the age, such as Edgar Allan Poe, to more recently rediscovered and now celebrated writers such as Kate Chopin and Charles Chesnutt, to the completely and unfairly obscure E. Levi Brown.  Companion readings―some themselves quite chilling―are by celebrated writers and well-known historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson, Charles Brockden Brown, Jacques Dessalines, and W. E. B DuBois.  These readings place the fiction in the context of the South and the Caribbean: the revolution in Haiti, Nat Turner’s rebellion, the realities of slavery and the myths spun by its apologists, the aftermath of the Civil War, and the brutalities of Jim Crow laws.

Charles L. Crow, Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University, has authored and edited studies of American regional literatures and of American gothic. 

Susan Castillo Street, Professor Emerita at King’s College London, has published widely on nineteenth-century American literature, colonial writing of the Early Americas, and the Southern Gothic.