The poetics and politics of the American Gothic: gender and slavery in nineteenth-century American literature

Unreliable narrators and "unnatural sensations" : irony and conscience in Edgar Allan Poe

"Everywhere a crossand nastiness at the foot of it" : history, ethics, and slavery in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun

"Thy catching nobleness unsexes me, my brother" : queer knowledge in Herman Melville's Pierre

"I was queer company enough

quite as queer as the company I received" : the queer gothic of Henry James and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.