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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 argues that these authors' concerns about slavery, gender, and sexuality tacitly inform works that deal explicitly with less controversial subjects. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (163 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780754699439 0754699439 1282545205 9781282545205 1351884158 9781351884150 1315237806 9781315237800 9786612545207 6612545208 |