American Gothic

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General Studies

ABADI, Nagy Zoltan. “Gothic Fiction.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 6 (2000): 145-96. [GGIII: 3345]

ACCETA, Michael Angelo. “Gothic Elements in the Early American Novel: 1775-1825.” Disseratation Abstracts International 14 (1954): 1394 (University of Pittsburgh). [GGI: 1299].

ANOLIK, Ruth Bienstock. Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2010.

ANOLIK, Ruth Bienstock. “The Missing Mother: The Meanings of Maternal Absence in the Gothic Mode.“ Modern Language Studies 33:1-2 (2003): 24-43. [GGIV: 0000]

ANTHONY, David. “Banking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic.“ American Literature 76 (2004): 719-48.

ANTHONY, M. Susan. “‘Some Deed of  Dreadful Note’: Productions of Gothic Dramas in the United States, 1790 to 1830.” Dissertation Abstracts International 58:9 (1998): 3366A (University of Maryland). [GGIII: 3347]

ANTHONY, M. Susan. “Made in America: Adaptations of British Gothic Plays for the American Stage.” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 8:3 (1996): 19-34. [GGIII: 3348]

ATWOOD, Thomas & Wade M. Lee. “The Price of Deviance: Schoolhouse Gothic in Prep School Literature.“ Children's Literature: Annual of the Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and the Children's Literature Association 35:1 (2007): 102-126. [GGIV: 0000].

BAILEY, Dale Frederick. “The Haunted House Formula in American Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 59:1 (1998): 168A (University of Tennessee). [GGIII: 3349]

BAILEY, Dale Frederick. American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction. Bowling Green , OH : Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1999. [GGIII: 3350]

BAKER, Dorothy Z. America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. [GGIV: 0000]

BANTA, Martha. “American Apocalypses Excrement and Ennui.” Studies in the Literary Imagintion 7 (1974): 1-30. [GGI: 1300].

BENTON, Richard P. “The Problems of Literary Gothicism.” Emerson Society Quarterly 17 91972): 5-9. [GGI: 1301].

BETTS, William Jr. “The Faust Tradition in American Literature.” Doctoral Dissertation, Pennsylvania State university, 1954. [GGI: 1302].

BEUTEL, Katherine Piller. “Disembodied and Re-Embodied Voices: The Figure of Echo in American Gothic Texts.” Dissertation Abstracts International 54:9 (1994): 4090A (Ohio State). [GGIII: 3354]

BLACKFORD, Holly. “Haunted Housekeeping: Fatal Attractions of Servant and Mistress in Twentieth Century Female Gothic Literature.” Literature Interpretation Theory 16 (2005): 233-61. [GGIV: 0000]

BOYD, J. Caleb. “Southernness, Not Otherness: The Community of the American South in New Southern Gothic Drama.“ Dissertation Abstracts International 65:7 (2005): 2433 (Florida State University) [GGIV: 0000]

BRADBURY, Malcolm. “American Gothic.” Listener (November 7, 1963): 763. [GGI: 1303].

BROGAN, Kathleen. “American Stories of Cultural Haunting: Tales of Heirs and Ethnographers.” College English 57 (1995): 149-65. [GGIII: 3356]

BROWN, Herbert Ross. The Sentimental Novel in America, 1789-1860. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1940; Rpt. New York: Octagon, 1975. [GGI: 1304].

BULAND, Mable. “Development of the Gothic novel in America.” Master’s Thesis, University of Washington, 1908. [GGIII: 3358]

CARBONELL, Ana Maria. “Reconstructing Motherhood: The Female Gothic and Transcultural Strategies in African-American and Chicana Feminist Writings.” Dissertation Abstracts International, 57:10 (1997): 4367A (University of California, Santa Cruz). [GGIII: 3359]

CARSO, Kerry Dean. “Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature, 1800-1850.”  Dissertation  Abstracts International 62:2 (2001): 364. [GGIII: 3360]

CARTWRIGHT, Keith Allen. “Reading Africa into American Literature: Roots, Creole Routes, Garrulous Ghosts.” Dissertation Abstracts International 58:9 (1997): 3522 (Indiana University). [GGIII: 3361]

CARTWRIGHT, Keith Allen. Reading Africa into American Literature: Ethics, Fables, and Gothic Tales. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. [GGIII: 3362]

CASSUTO, Leonard D. “The American Grotesque.” Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 2486A (Harvard University). [GGII: 0820].

CHIU, Neil. “Uncanny Doubles: Nationalism and Repression in Asian American Literature and African American Literature.” Dissertation Abstracts International 60:6 (1999): 2024 ( University of California, Berkeley). [GGIII: 3364]

COAD, Oral. “The Gothic Element in American Literature Before 1835.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 24 (1925): 72-93. [GGI: 1306].

COAD, Oral. “Jersey Gothic.” Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 84 (1966): 89-112. [GGI: 1307].

COWELL, Pattie. “Class, Gender, and Genre: Deconstructing Social Formulas on the Gothic Frontier.” Frontier  Gothic: Terror  and Wonder  at the  Frontier in American Literature. Eds. David Mogen, Scott P. Saunders, Joanne Karpiniski. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1993. 126-139. [GGII: 0821].

CURREN, Erik David. “Bringing Horror Home; The Modern American Gothic.” Dissertation Abstracts International, 56:6 (1995): 2235A (University of California-Irvine). [GGIII: 3368]

DAHL, Curtis. “The American School of Catastrophe.” American Quarterly 11 (1959): 380-390. [GGI: 1308].

DAVIS, David Brion. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1957. [GGI: 1309].

DAVIS, Mike Lee. “Reading the text that isn’t there: Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel.” Dissertation Abstracts International 62:11 (2002): 223 (Princeton University). [GGIII: 3371]

DAVIS, Mike Lee. Reading the text that isn't there: Paranoia in the Nineteenth Century American Novel. New York: Routledge, 2005. [GGIV: 0000]

DAWES, James. “Fictional Feeling: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the American Gothic.” American Literature 76 (2004): 437-66. [GGIV: 0000]

DIMAGGIO, Richard S. “The Tradition of the American Gothic Novel.” Dissertation Abstracts International 37 91976): 307A (University of Arizona). [GGI: 1310] .

DIMIC, Milan V. “Aspects of American and Canadian Gothicism.” Proceedings of the 7th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association: Literatures of America: Dependence, Idependence, Interdependence. Stuttgart, Germany: Beiber, 1979. 143-149. [GGI: 1311].

DOCHERTY, Brian. American Horror Fiction: From  Brockden Brown to Stephen King. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.[GGII: 0822].

EDMUNDSON, Mark. “American Gothic.” Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress 3:3 (May /June 1996): 48-55. [GGIII: 3375]

EDMUNDSON, Mark. Nightmare on Main Street : Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. [GGIII: 3376]

EDWARDS, Justin D. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002. [GGIII: 3377]

EGAN, Kenneth. “Apocalypse Against Progress: Gothic and Pastoral Modes in the American Romance.” Dissertation Abstracts International 45 91985): 2526A-2527A (University of Wisconsin). [GGII: 0823].

EMMONS, Winfred S. Jr. “The Materials and Methods of American Horror Fiction in the Nineteenth Century.” Doctoral Dissertation. Louisiana State University, 1952. [GGI: 1312].

FIELDLER, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel. New York: Criterion, 1960; Rpt. New York: Dell, 1966. [GGI: 1315].

FIELDLER, Leslie. “Second  Thoughts  on  Love and Death in the American Novel: My First Gothic Novel.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 1 (1967): 1-19. [GGI: 1316].

FOLSOM, James K. “Gothicism in the Western Novel.” Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. Eds. David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, Joanne Karpinski. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1983, 28-41. [GGII: 0824].

GIBBONS, Luke. “Ireland, America, and Gothic Memory: Terror in the Early Republic.“ Boundary 31 (2004): 25-47. [GGIV: 0000]

GILLESPIE, Gerald. “Rogues Fools and Satyrs: Ironic Ghosts in American Fiction.” Modern American Fiction: Insights and Foreign Lights. Ed. Wolodymyr T. Zyla and Wendell M. Aycocks. Lubbock, TX: Texas Technological UP, 1972. 89-106. [GGI: 1319].

GODDU, Teresa A. “The Haunted Text: Form and History in American Gothic.” Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 3928A (University of Pennsylvania). [GGII: 0825].

GODDU, Teresa A. Gothic America : Narrative, History, and Nation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. [GGIII: 3385]

GRAFF, Bennett. “Horror in Evolution: Determinism, Materialism, and Darwinism in the American Gothic.” Dissertation Abstracts International, 56:5 (1995): 1777A-78A (City University of New York). [GGIII: 3386]

GREEN, Gary Lee. “The Language of Nightmare: A Theory of American Gothic Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 46 91985): 1279A (University of Oklahoma). [GGII: 0826].

GROSS, Louis S. “The Transformed Land: Studies in American Gothic Narrative.” Dissertation Abstracts International 47 91986): 1323A (University of Pennsylvania). [GGII: 0827] 

GROSS, Louis S. Redefining the American Gothic: From Wieland to the Day of the Dead. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Press, 1989. [GGII: 0828].

HALTTUNEN, Karen. Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UniversityPress, 1998. [GGIII: 3390]

HARDMAN, Marion P. “Terror in American Prose Fiction Prior to 1835.” Doctoral Dissertation. University of Minnesota, 1939. [GGI: 1320] .

HELLER, Terry. The Delights of Terror: An Æsthetics of the Tale of Terror. Urbana, IL: Illinois UP, 1987. [GGII: 0829].

HILLARD, Thomas J. "Dark Nature: The Gothic Tradition of American Nature Writing." Dissertation Abstracts International 67:10 (2007): 3820 (University of Arizona). [GGIV: 0000].

IDIART, Jeannette and Jennifer SCHULZ, “American Gothic Landscapes: The New World to Vietnam.” (pp. 127-39). In Spectral Readings : Towards a Gothic Geography, eds. Glennis Byron and David Punter. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. [GGIII: 3393]

INGEBRETSEN, Edward J. Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell: Religious Terror as Memory from the Puritans to Stephen  King.  Armonk, NY and London : M.E. Sharpe, 1996 . [GGIII: 3394]

JENKINS, Jennifer Lee. “Failed Mothers and Fallen Houses: Gothic Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 54 91993): 1265A (University of Arizona). [GGII: 0830] .

JONES, Timothy. "The Canniness of the Gothic: Genre as Practice." Gothic Studies 11.1 (2009): 124-133.

KAMINER, Wendy. “American Gothic.“ American Prospect 11:26 (2000): 38-39. [GGIV: 0000]

KARPINSKI, Joanne B. “The Gothic Underpinnings of Realism in the Local Colorists’ No Man’s Land.” In Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. Eds. David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, Joanne Karpinski. Rutherford, NJ: Firleigh Dickinson UP, 1993. 140-155. [GGII: 0832] 

KATRATKIS, Maria. “Gothic Patterns in American Short Fiction of the Nineteenth Century.” Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 2896A (University of South South Africa). [GGII: 0833].

KERR, Howard, John W. CROWLEY and Charles L. CROW. The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920. Athens, GA: Georgia UP, 1983. [GGII: 0834].

KING, Stephen. Danse Macabre. New York: Everett House, 1981. [GGII: 0835].

KRAMER, .Michael P. “Voices: An American Gothic Tale; or, My Life with Jewish Literature.” Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature 1 (2005): 5-16. [GGIV: 0000]

LACOMBE, Alain. Le Roman noir americain. Paris: Union Generale d'Edition, 1975. [GGII: 0836].

LAURIC, Guillaud. La Terreur et le sacrée: La Nuit gothique américaine. Paris: Michel Houdiard. 2003. [GGIV: 0000]

LEWIS, Hanna B. “The Catalytic Child Hero in the Contemporary Gothic Novel.” The Hero in Transition. Eds. Ray B. Browne, Marshal W. Fishwick. Bowling Gree, OH: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1983. 151-162. [GGII: 1439].

LIENARD-YETARIAN, Marie. “On the Gothic.” Nouvelles de Sud: Hearing Voices, Reading Stories. Eds. Marie Liénard-Yetarian, Gérald Préher. Paris: École Polytechnic, 2007. 69-72. [GGIV: 0000]

LIENARD-YETARIAN, Marie. “The Gothic ‘Through the Pale Door’: Guidelines for Study." Nouvelles de Sud: Hearing Voices, Reading Stories, eds. Marie Liénard-Yetarian, Gérald Préher. Paris: École Polytechnic, 2007. 73-78. [GGIV: 0000]

LIGGINS, Saundra K. “Authoring the Gothic: The Gothic Tradition of African-American Literature.“ Dissertation Abstracts International 64:7 (2004): 2492 (University of California, San Diego).  [GGIV: 000]

LLOYD-SMITH, Alan Gardner. Uncanny American Fiction, Medusa’s Face. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. [GGII: 0837] 

LLOYD-SMITH, Alan Gardner. “American Gothic.” The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York : New York University Press, 1998. 2-10. [GGIII: 3403]

LLOYD-SMITH, Alan Gardner. “Nineteenth-Century American Gothic.” A Companion to the Gothic, ed. David Punter. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 109-21. [GGIII: 3404]

LLOYD-SMITH, Alan Gardner. American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction. New York & London: Continuum, 2004. [GGIV; 000].

LOSHIE, Lillie Deming. “The Gothic and the Revolutionary.” The Early American Novel. New York": Colombia UP (Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative literature), 1907; Rpt. New york: Frederick Ungar, 1966. [GGI: 1323] .

LUNDIE, Catherine Ann. “To Be Haunted; Ghost Stories by Post-Romantic American Women Writers.” Dissertation Abstracts International, 57:8 (1997): 3495A (University of Toronto). [GGIII: 3406]

LUTZ, Deborah. “The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century." Empowerment Versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Reviews of Popular Romance Novels. Ed. Sally Goade. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 81-92. [GGIV: 0000]

MAGISTRALE, Tony and Michael A. MORRISON, eds. Introduction. A Dark Night’s Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction. Eds. Tony Magistrale and Michael A. Morrison. Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, 1996. 1-8. [GGIII: 3407]

MALIN, Irving. New American Gothic. Preface by Harry T. Moore. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1962. [GGI: 1324].

MALIN, Irving. “American Gothic Images.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 6 (1973): 145-171. [GGI: 1325] 

MARTIN, Robert K. and Eric SAVOY, eds. American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative. Iowa City: Iowa University Press, 1998. [GGIII: 3410]

MCINTYRE, Rebecca C. “Promoting the Gothic South.” Southern Cultures 11:2 (2005): 33-61. [GGIV: 0000]

MCLEAN, Clara Denison. “Improper Realizations: Gothic Materiality in American Texts.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:11 (2001): 4389 (University of California, Irvine). [GGIII: 3411]

MCLEAN Clara Denison. American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque.  Columbia,  MO:  Missouri University Press, 1990. [GGIII: 3412]

MEYERS, Helene. “Femicidal Fears in Contemporary Fiction: Feminist Thought and the Female Gothic.” Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 3277A (Indiana University). [GGII: 0839] 

MICHASIW, Kim Ian. “Some Stations of Suburban Gothic” (pp. 237-57). The American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative, eds. R.K. Martin and Eric Savoy. Iowa City: University Iowa Press, 1998. [GGIII: 3414]

MILLS, Jerry Leath. “Equine Gothic: the Dead Mule as Generic Signifier in Southern Literature of the Twentieth Century.” Southern Literary Journal 29 (1997): 2-17. [GGIII: 3415]

MOGEN, David. “Frontier Myth and American Gothic.” Genre 14 (1981): 329-346. [GGI: 1326] 

MOGEN, David. “Wilderness, Metamorphosis, and Millennium: Gothic Apocalypse from the Puritans to the cyberpunks.” Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1993. 94-108. [GGII: 0840].

MOORE, Michelle E. “Nothing More than Murder: Violent Representation in American Narrative and Film.” Dissertation Abstracts International 62:3 (2001): 1021 (SUNY at Binghamton). [GGIII: 3418]

MORGENSTERN, Naomi Elizabeth. “Gothic Rehearsals: Traumatic Origins and Spectral Returns in Twentieth-Century American Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 57:6 (1996): 2480A (Cornell University). [GGIII: 3419]

NOBLE, Marianne. “The American Gothic.“ A Companion to American Fiction, ed. Shirley Samuels. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004. 168-178. [GGIV: 0000]

NORRIS, Darrell. “Evolving Landscapes of Horror: Recent Themes in American Fiction.” Consumable Goods: Papers from the North East Popular Culture Association Meeting. Ed. David K. Vaughan. Orono, ME: University of Maine National Poetry Foundation, 1987. 75-83. [GGII: 0842] 

OATES, Joyce Carol. Introduction. American Gothic Tales. New York : Penguin Books, 1996. 1-9. [GGIII: 3421]

OATES, Joyce Carol. “Reflections on the Grotesque.” Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art. Cambridge , MA : MIT Press, 1997. 38-34. [GGIII: 3422]

O’LEARY, Crystal Laraine. “‘A Grave For This Book’: Textual fetishism in American Gothic from Brockden Brown to John Carpenter.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:6 (2000): 2304 (University of Louisiana at Lafayette). [GGIII: 3423]

PALMER, Louis Hooker III. “Pathologized Subjects: Southern Gothic, White Trash, and the Discourse of ‘Race’ in the 1930’s.” Dissertation Abstracts International 59:7 (1998): 2508A (Syracuse University). [GGIII: 3424]

PETERS, Brian Mitchell. “Monstrous Desires: Homosexuality and the Gothic in Twentieth Century American Literature." Dissertation Abstracts International 64:7 (2004): 2480 (University of Montreal). [GGIV: 0000]

PHILLIPS, George L. “The Gothic Element in the American Novel Before 1830.” West Virginia University Bulletin: Philological Studies 3 91939): 37-45. [GGI: 1329] 

PITCHER, Edward W.R. Recalling Fiction’s Cultural Contexts––Early Gothic and Utopian Romance: Cooper, Poe, Crane, Cather, Lawrence, Fitzgerald, and West. Lewiston, NY; Queenston, ON : Edwin Mellen Press, 2002. [GGIII: 3426]

PRIBEK, Thomas R. “Utility and Invention in American Gothic Literature.” Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987): 3429A-3430A (University of Wisconsin). [GGII: 0843] 

QUINN, Arthur Hobson. “Some Phases of the Supernatural in American Literature.” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 25 (1910): 114-133. [GGI: 1330] 

RABINOWITZ, Stuart R. “Jewish-American Gothic.” Dissertation  Abstracts  International 61:7 (2001): 2720 (University of Colorado at Boulder). [GGIII: 3429]

RADWAY, Janice. “The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and ‘Feminist’ Protest.” Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline,  ed.  Lucy Maddox. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1999. 235-60. [GGIII: 3430]

RANIERI, Marietta R. “The Self Behind the Self: The Americanization of the Gothic.” Dissertation Abstracts International 34 (1973): 5200A-5201A (Pennsylvania State University). [GGI: 1331] 

REDDEN, Maurita. The Gothic Fiction in the American Magazines (1765-1800). Washington, D.C: Catholic UP, 1939. [GGI: 1332] 

RINGE, Donald A. American Gothic: Imagination and Reason in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Lexington, KY: Kentucky UP, 1982. [GGI: 1333].

RINGEL, Faye. New England’s Gothic Literature: History and Folklore of the Supernatural from the Seventeenth Through the Twentieth Centuries. Lewiston, ME : Edwin Mellen, 1995. [GGIII: 3434]

ROBILLARD, Douglas. American Supernatural Fiction: From Edith Wharton to the Weird Tales Writers. New York: Garland Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Number 6; Garland Publishing, 1996. [GGIII: 3435]

ROWE, Anne. “Honor, Chivalry, and the Gothic in the Southern Imagination." Mississippi Quarterly 37 (1984): 109-114. [GGII: 0844].

SAHAY, Vrunda Stampwala. “Re(Forming) the Republic: Gothic Negotiations of American Subjectivity from Revolution to Empire.” Dissertation Abstracts International 67:7 (2007): 2582 (University of California, Riverside). [GGIV: 0000]

SANDERS, Scott P. “Southwestern Gothic: On the Frontier Between Landscape and Locale.” In Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. Eds. David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, Joanne B. Karpinski. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1993. 55-70. [GGII: 0845].

SAVOY, Eric. “The Face of the Tenant: A Theory of American Gothic” (pp. 3-19). The American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative. Eds. R.K. Martin and Eric Savoy. Iowa City: University Iowa Press, 1998. [GGIII: 3438]

SAVOY, Eric. “The Rise of American Gothic.” The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, ed. Jerrold E. Hogle. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 167-88. [GGIII: 3439]

SCHACHEL, Robert C. “Textual Projections: The Emergence of a Postcolonial American Gothic.” Dissertation Abstracts International 67:7 (2007): 2582 (University of Florida). [GGIV: 0000]

SEIDNER-KEDAR, Eva Helen. “‘Ghosts in the Air of America’: Transformation as Theme and Technique in North American Dark Romance.” Dissertation Abstracts International 44 (1984): 3074A (University of Toronto). [GGII: 0846] 

SEROVA, V.N. “Traditsii Goticheskogo Romana v Americanskom Romantizme.” Nauchnye Trudy Kubanskogo Universiteta, Krasnodar 155 (1972): 27-39. [GGI: 1334] 

SHELDEN, Pamela J. “American Gothicism: The Evolution of a Mode.” Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1974): 1634A-1635A (Kent State University). [GGI: 1335].

SHOWALTER, Elaine. “American Female Gothic.” In Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991. 127-144. [GGII: 0847] 

SIGMAR, Lucia Ann Stretcher. “The Gothic Tradition in Southern Local Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 57:2 (1996): 685A (University of Tennessee). [GGIII: 3444]

SIVILS, Matthew Wynn. "'The Base, Cursed Thing': Panther Attacks, Ecotones, and Antebellum American Fiction." Journal of Ecocriticism 2.1 (2010). <http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/131/0> [Includes discussion of Brockden Brown and Fenimore Cooper].

SLOAN, De Villo. “Influences of Industrialization on the Origin and Development of American Gothic Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 43 91982): 1548A (SUNY-Buffalo). [GGII: 0848].

SMITH, B.R. “American Gothic: Tales of the Supernatural in Prime Time.“ Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 14 (2003): 77-85. [GGIV: 0000]

SMITH, Greg Richard. “Dark Side of the Dream: The Social Gothic in Vietnam Era America.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:10 (2001): 4055 (Western Michigan University). [GGIII: 3446]

SMITH, Greg Richard. “Ghostly Stories with or without Ghosts: The American Social Gothic.” Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association ( Silver Spring, MD ) (1998): 7: 79-88. [GGIII: 3447]

SONSER, Anna. A Passion for Consumption: The Gothic Novel in America. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001. [GGIII: 3448]

SUNSHINE, Kathleen. “From Castle to Cabin.” Early American Literature and the Call of the Wild. New York and london: Garland Publishing, 1987. 97-165. [GGII: 0849].

TEN BROEKE, Patricia A.M. “The Shadow of Satan: A Study of the Devil Archetype in Selected American Novels from Hawthorne to the Present Day.” Dissertation Abstracts International 32 (1972): 6457A-6458A (University of Texas at Austin). [GGI: 1338].

TENNENHOUSE, Leonard. “The Gothic in Diaspora” (XXX). In The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. [GGIV: 0000]

THOMPSON, G.R. “The Apparition of This World: Transcendentalism and the American ‘Ghost Story.’” Bridges to Fantasy. Eds. George Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, Robert E. Scholes. Carbondale, IL: Southern Ilinois UP, 1982: 90-107. [GGII: 0850] 

TRUFFIN, Sherry Roxane. “Schoolhouse Gothic:  Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship.” Dissertation Abstracts International 63:6 (2002): 2245 (Loyola University of Chicago). [GGIII: 3452]

TUCKER, Amy. “America’s Gothic Landscape.” Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1980): 5868A (New york university). [GGI: 1340] 

VOLLER, Jack. The Supernatural Sublime: The Metaphysics of Terror in Anglo-American Romanticism. Dekalb, IL : Northern Illinois University Press, 1994. [GGIII: 3454]

WILBER,  Rhonda  E.  Morrow.  “The  Dearth in African-American Literature: A Social Psychological Analysis of the Missing Fiction Genres and the Correlation to the Major Social, Economic, and Mental Health Problems of the African-American Community and the Effects on Television Programming.” Dissertation Abstracts International 59:9 (1998): 3460A (Union Institute). [GGIII: 3455]

WILCZYNSKI, Marek. The Phantom and the Abyss: The Gothic Fiction in America and Æsthetics of the Sublime 1798-1856. Frankfort and New York : Peter Lang; Polish Studies in English Language and Literature; Vol. 2, 1999. [GGIII: 3456]

WINTER, Kari J. Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives. Athens, GA: Georgia UP, 1992. [GGII: 0851].

YAGI, Toshio. “Amerikan Goshikku n Tanjo.” Shiro to Memai: Goshikkuo Yumu. Eds. Masoa Shimura, Takao Toniyama. Tokyo: Kokusho Kanokai, 1982. 139-173. [GGII: 0852] .

YATES, Jo Anne. “American Gothic: Sources of Terror in American Fiction Before the Civil War.” Dissertation Abstracts International 41 (1980): 1602A (University of North Carolina). [GGI: 1342].