The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-War American Fiction

by James Morgart

A study of regional anxiety in postwar Gothic fiction, beyond the red scare.

The Haunted States of America reveals how the red scare exploited regional narrative traditions as it spread across the national imagination. In particular, Cold War anxieties found a welcome home in regional forms of Gothic fiction that already mediated anxieties about threats to local power structures: white supremacy, patriarchy, and colonialism, as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786838761
• ISBN13: 9781786838766
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"