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UNINA9910815094303321 |
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Autore |
Haslam Jason <1971-> |
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Titolo |
American gothic culture : an Edinburgh companion / / Jason Haslam and Joel Faflak |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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1-4744-1022-7 |
1-4744-2555-0 |
1-4744-1855-4 |
1-4744-0162-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Edinburgh companions to the Gothic |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- American Gothic Culture -- Copyright -- Contents -- PLATES -- Introduction -- Part I Gothic Histories, Gothic Identities -- 1 Gothic Monstrosity: Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly and the Trope of the Bestial Indian -- 2 Slavery and American Gothic: The Ghost of the Future -- 3 Ethno-gothic: Repurposing Genre in Contemporary American Literature -- II Gothic Genres, Gothic Sites -- 4 Southern Gothic -- 5 The Devil in the Slum: American Urban Gothic -- 6 Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic -- Part III Gothic Media -- 7 American Gothic Television -- 8 American Gothic Art -- 9 Doppelgamers: Video Games and Gothic Choice -- Part IV American Creatures -- 10 Screening the American Gothic: Celluloid Serial Killers in American Popular Culture -- 11 American Vampires -- 12 Consumed out of the Good Land: The American Zombie, Geopolitics and the Post-War World -- Contributors -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture |
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