Poe, “The House of Usher,” and the American Gothic

1. Introduction: The “Usher” Formula
Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

2. Feminist “Usher”: Domestic Horror in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

3. Realistic “Usher”: Narrative Imagination and James’s The Turn of the Screw
Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

4. Cosmic “Usher”: Lovecraft Adapts his “God of Fiction”
Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

5. Haunted “Usher”: Moving toward Absolute Reality in The Haunting of Hill House
Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

6. Maternal “Usher”: Bloch’s Psycho and the Blood-Stained Goddess of Death
Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

7. Evil “Usher”: Rosemary’s Baby, Pop Culture, and the Evils of Consumerism
Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

8. Ceremonial “Usher”: The Initiation of Jack Torrance and the Fall of the Overlook Hotel
Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature