|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910789398003321 |
|
|
Autore |
Sugars Cynthia Conchita <1963-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Canadian gothic : literature, history, and the spectre of self-invention / / Cynthia Sugars ; typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2014 |
|
©2014 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (305 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Altri autori (Persone) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Gothic revival (Literature) - Canada |
Canadian literature - History and criticism |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Cover; Acknowledgements; Introduction:Settled Unsettlement; or, Familiarizing the Uncanny; 1 Here There Be Monsters: Wilderness Gothic and Psychic Projection; 2 Haunted by a Lack of Ghosts: Gothic Absence and Settler Melancholy; 3 French-Canadian Gothic: Excess as Emplacement; 4 Local Familiars: Gothic Infusion and Settler Indigenization; 5 Playing fort da with History: Settler Postcolonial Gothic; 6 Strangers Within: Unsettling the Canadian Gothic; 7 Indigenous Ghost-Dancing: At Home on Native Land; Conclusion: The Spectre of Self-Invention; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Focusing on the ways that Canadian writers turned to the Gothic for its vitalising rather than unsettling potential, this volume offers an important reconsideration of the Gothic legacy in Canada. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|