Table of Contents:
  • Hybrid bodies and gothic narratives in Poe's Pym
  • Gothic travels in Melville's Benito Cereno
  • Passing and abjection in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom
  • The epistemology of the body; or, gothic secrets in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy
  • Genetic atavism and the return of the repressed in William Dean Howell's An imperative duty
  • The haunted house behind the cedars: Charles W. Chesnutt and the "white negro"
  • Epilogue: twentieth-century gothicism and racial ambiguity.