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Author Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik.

Title The poetics and politics of the American gothic : gender and slavery in nineteenth-century American literature / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (163 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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 argues that these authors' concerns about slavery, gender, and sexuality tacitly inform works that deal explicitly with less controversial subjects.
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Subject Judgment in literature.
Judgment in literature.
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Sex in literature.
Sex in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Judgment (Ethics) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Judgment (Ethics)
United States.
History.
Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik. Poetics and politics of the American gothic. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010 (DLC) 2009042375
ISBN 9780754699439 (ebook)
0754699439 (ebook)
1282545205
9781282545205
9781409400561 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
1409400565