Gothic Landscapes

Chapter 1 Introduction: Haunted Landscapes and Fearful Spaces—Expanding Views on the Geography of the Gothic

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

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

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

Chapter 5 What the Green Grass Hides: Denial and Deception in Suburban Detroit

Chapter 6 “Go Steady, Undine!”: The Horror of Ambition in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country

Chapter 7 The Convent as Coven: Gothic Implications of Women-Centered Illness and Healing Narratives in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

Chapter 9 The Indian Gothic

Chapter 10 St. Bernard’s: Terrors of the Light in the Gothic Hospital

Chapter 11 Nature Selects the Horla: How the Concept of Natural Selection Influences Guy de Maupassant’s Horror Tale

Chapter 12 Ruins of Empire: Refashioning the Gothic in J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun (1984)

Chapter 13 Gothic Landscapes in Mary Butts’s Ashe of Rings