Savage horrors : the intrinsic raciality of the American gothic /

The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the American Gothic novel in the twenty-first century. Savage Horrors delineates an intrinsic raciality that is discursively sedimented in the Gothic's uniquely binary str...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lenhardt, Corinna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020]
Colección:American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 29.
Temas:
1800-1899
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature) > United States.
Race in literature.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature frénétique > États-Unis.
Race dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
American fiction
Gothic revival (Literature)
Race in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • What Is the Gothic?
  • British Origins of the Savage Villain/Civil Hero Gotheme
  • Early WASP American Adaptations
  • Contemporary WASP American Iterations
  • Innovation and Resistance: The SV/CH Gotheme in Black Writing, 1789 to 1861
  • African American Gothic Today: Black Tradition and Reiterative Practices
  • Epilogue: The American Gothic, Raciality, and the Possibility of Reiterative "Unthought"
  • Works Cited

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