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Gothic to multicultural : idioms of imagining in American literary fiction /

Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction, twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The collection opens with considerations of gothic as light and dark in Charles Brockden Brown, war and peace...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lee, A. Robert, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009.
Series:Costerus ; new ser., v. 178.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction, twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The collection opens with considerations of gothic as light and dark in Charles Brockden Brown, war and peace in Cooper's The Spy, Antarctica as world-genesis in Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the link of "The Custom House" and main text in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, reflexive codings in Melville's Moby-Dick and The Confidence-Man, Henry James' Hawthorne as self-mirroring biography, an.
Physical Description:1 online resource (543 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781441603500
9789401206600
9401206600
1441603506