Screen LibraryGothic subjects : the transformation of individualism in american fiction, 1790-1861 /
Silyn Roberts turns our previous understanding of gothic literature inside out, arguing that the gothic conventions imported from Britain were appropriated by American writers to offer the early republic a vision of what American character might ultimately be.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Silyn Roberts turns our previous understanding of gothic literature inside out, arguing that the gothic conventions imported from Britain were appropriated by American writers to offer the early republic a vision of what American character might ultimately be. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780812209839 |
| Index Number: | PS374 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Gothic Enlightenment -- Chapter 1. Th e American Transformation of the British Individual -- Chapter 2. Captivity, Incorporation, and the Politics of Going Native -- Chapter 3. A Mind for the Gothic: Common Sense and the Problem of Local Culture -- Chapter 4. Population and the Limits of Civil Society in Nathaniel Hawthorne s -- Chapter 5. Slavery and Gothic Form: Writing Race as the Bio- Novel -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |