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Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism is an innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities. Following the golden age of British Gothic in the late...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ryden, Wendy (Editor ), Elbert, Monika M. (Monika Maria), 1956- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Colección:Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Naturalism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden
  • I. Imprisoning genders
  • 1. Seeing Gothically : Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons / Stephen Arch
  • 2. Matrimonial abjections : the slave marriage and Charles W. Chesnutt's legal gothic / Wendy Ryden
  • 3. Iterated horrors : "the monster" and manhood / David Greven
  • 4. The victim as vampire : Gothic naturalism in the white slave narrative / Donna M. Campbell
  • II. Horrors of the Civil War and its aftermath
  • 5. Domestic Gothic in the Civil War fiction of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward) and Ambrose Bierce / Monika Elbert
  • 6. "His face ceased instantly to be a face" : Gothicism in Stephen Crane / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
  • 7. Unmasking the lynching subject : Thomas Nelson Page, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the specters of American race / Steve Marsden
  • III. Wicked money, haunted objects
  • 8. Dangerous houses in the uncanny tales of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Mary E. Wilkins / Dara Downey
  • 9. Haunted economies : race, retribution, and money in Pauline Hopkins's Of one blood and W. E. B. Du Bois's The quest of the silver fleece / Christine A. Wooley
  • 10. Housing crisis and Gothic gambling in Theodore Dreiser's The financier / Patricia Luedecke
  • IV. Paranormal longings and warnings
  • 11. The haunted narrators of Clovernook : Alice Cary's village Gothic / Dennis Berthold
  • 12. The ghosts of medical and domestic violence in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The gates between / Lisa A. Long
  • 13. The spirit of revolt : Hamlin Garland's paranormal writing / Daniel Mrozowski
  • V. Spectral landscapes and locations
  • 14. The specter and the spectator : Rebecca Harding Davis's "The second life" and the naturalist Gothic / Alicia Mischa Renfroe
  • 15. Enchanting night and nocturnal predations : the art of darkness in Frank Norris's McTeague / Charlotte L. Quinney
  • 16. Vaster and more terrible : Jack London's Gothic splicing / Kenneth K. Brandt
  • 17. Naturalistic despair, human struggle, and the Gothic in Wharton's short fiction / Gary Totten.

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