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Summary: 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

Language: eng

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London | New York, Anthem Press, 2021

Extent: vi 227 pages

Contents

The fall of the House of Usher
1839
Chapter three
The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
1844
Edgar Allan Poe
Chapter four
A struggle for life
1850
Henry Clay Lewis
Acknowledgments
Chapter five
Belles Demoiselles Plantation
1879
George Washington Cable
Chapter six
The ghostly kiss
1880
Lafcadio Hearn
Chapter seven
No haid pawn
Introduction
1887
Thomas Nelson Page
Chapter eight
Po' Sandy
1888
Charles Chesnutt
Chapter nine
The little convent girl
1893
Grace King
The tales
Chapter ten
At the Hermitage
1893
E. Levi Brown
Chapter eleven
Désirée's baby
1893
Kate Chopin
Chapter twelve
At La Glorieuse
Chapter One
1897
M. E. M. Davis
Background
Chapter thirteen
from Letters from an American farmer Letter IX
1782
J Hector St John de Crev̀ecoeur
Chapter fourteen
from Notes on the State of Virginia Query XVIII
1785
The Mulatto
Thomas Jefferson
Chapter fifteen
Liberty or death
proclamation 28 April 1804
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Chapter sixteen
On the consequences of abolishing the slave trade to the West Indian Colonies
1803
Charles Brockden Brown
Chapter seventeen
1837
from Secret history, or, the Horrors of St Domingo Letter II Letter XXI
1808
Leonora Sansay
Chapter eighteen
from The confessions of Nat Turner
1831
Thomas Ruffin Gray
Chapter nineteen
St Johns Eve Voudouism
1875
Victor Séjour new English translation by Susan Castillo Street
Lafcadio Hearn
Chapter twenty
from Salome Müller the White slave from Strange true stories of Louisiana
1890
Chapter twenty one
from The haunted house in Royal Street from Strange true stories of Louisiana
1890
George Washington Cable
Chapter twenty two
Superstitions and folk lore of the South
Chapter two
1901
Charles W Chesnutt
Chapter twenty three
selection from Of the Black Belt from The souls of Black folk
1903
W. E. B. Du Bois
Index

Isbn: 9781785279744

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Label: Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic short fiction : Haunted by the dark

Title: Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic short fiction

Title remainder: Haunted by the dark

Statement of responsibility: Edited by Charles L. Crow and Susan Castillo Street

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Language: eng

Summary: 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

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