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

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

Challenging the widely held assumption that gothic literature is mainly about fear, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment. Analyzing canonical works by Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Gilman, and James, Monnet persuasively argue...

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Main Author: Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010
Subjects:
Judgment in literature.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Judgment (Ethics) > United States > History > 19th century.
Gothic revival (Literature) > United States.
Judgment (Ethics) > History > 19th century.
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