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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.
Temas:
1800-1899
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.
Jugement dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Jugement (Morale) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature frénétique > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Judgment (Ethics)
roman noir américain (Etats-Unis) > sexe (genre) > 19e s.
esclavage > roman noir américain (Etats-Unis) > 19e s.
jugement (philosophie) > littérature américaine > 19e s.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Unreliable narrators and "unnatural sensations" : irony and conscience in Edgar Allan Poe
  • "Everywhere-- a cross--and 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.

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