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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
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.
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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.
Subject Judgment in literature.
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Judgment (Ethics) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
Gothic revival (Literature) (OCoLC)fst00945084
Judgment (Ethics) (OCoLC)fst00984586
Judgment in literature. (OCoLC)fst00984602
Sex in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114464
Slavery in literature. (OCoLC)fst01120515
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
roman noir américain (Etats-Unis) -- sexe (genre) -- 19e s.
esclavage -- roman noir américain (Etats-Unis) -- 19e s.
jugement (philosophie) -- littérature américaine -- 19e s.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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 (electronic bk.)
0754699439 (electronic bk.)
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