Gothic America Narrative, History, and Nation

Name: Gothic America Narrative, History, and Nation
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ISBN: 9780231108171

ISBN-10: 0231108176

ISBN-13: 9780231108171

Edition: 1997

Authors: Teresa Goddu

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The gothic novel -the literary stronghold of ghosts, family curses, imperiled heroines and cumbersome plots- might be thought to fall under the category of "escapist fiction." But in this groundbreaking reappraisal, Teresa Goddu demonstrates that the American Gothic novel was, in often surprising ways, actively engaged with social, political, and cultural concerns of its time. Although social dislocations such as slavery or the massacre of Native Americans were repressed by our national conciousness, Goddu points out that these subjects were effectively incorporated by the gothic novel, articulated into an enduring national identity. Focusing on literature between the Revolutionary and…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/4/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 0.58" wide x 0.94" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Haunted by History: Crevecoeur's National Narrative and the Gothic



Diseased Discourse: Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn



Literary Nationalism and the Gothic: John Neal's Logan



The Ghost of Race: Edgar Allan Poe and the Southern Gothic



(Un)Veiling the Marketplace: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, and the Female Gothic



Haunting Back: Harriet Jacobs, African-American Narrative, and the Gothic


Epilogue: Remembering History


Notes


Works Cited


Index