Gothic passages : racial ambiguity and the American gothic /

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This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity. By bringing together these areas of analysis, Justin Edwards considers the following questions. How are the categories of "race" and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Edwards, Justin D., 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Horror tales, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature) > United States.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Ambiguity in literature.
Race in literature.
Récits d'horreur américains > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature frénétique > États-Unis.
Passing (Identité) dans la littérature.
Ambiguïté dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Ambiguity in literature
American fiction
Gothic revival (Literature)
Horror tales, American
Passing (Identity) in literature
Race in literature
Racially mixed people in literature
Gothic Revival (letterkunde)
Amerikaans.
Letterkunde.
Rassenverhoudingen.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Hybrid bodies and gothic narratives in Poe's Pym
  • Gothic travels in Melville's Benito Cereno
  • Passing and abjection in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom
  • The epistemology of the body; or, gothic secrets in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy
  • Genetic atavism and the return of the repressed in William Dean Howell's An imperative duty
  • The haunted house behind the cedars: Charles W. Chesnutt and the "white negro"
  • Epilogue: twentieth-century gothicism and racial ambiguity.

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