Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-217) and index.
Contents
Haunted by history : Crevecoeur's national narrative and the gothic -- Diseased discourse : Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn -- Literary nationalism and the gothic : John Neal's Logan -- The ghost of race : Edgar Allan Poe and the Southern gothic -- (Un)veiling the marketplace : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, and the female gothic -- Haunting back : Harriet Jacobs, African-American narrative, and the gothic -- Epilogue : Remembering history.
