03177oam 2200733I 450 991079240380332120230808210952.01-351-88414-X1-351-88415-81-315-23780-61-282-54520-597866125452070-7546-9943-910.4324/9781315237800 (CKB)2670000000018487(EBL)513945(OCoLC)630537374(SSID)ssj0000402305(PQKBManifestationID)11295484(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000402305(PQKBWorkID)10443091(PQKB)10336522(MiAaPQ)EBC513945(Au-PeEL)EBL513945(CaPaEBR)ebr10385831(CaONFJC)MIL254520(OCoLC)966310505(EXLCZ)99267000000001848720180706e20162010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe poetics and politics of the American Gothic gender and slavery in nineteenth-century American literature /Agnieszka Soltysik MonnetLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (174 p.)First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.1-138-26056-8 1-4094-0056-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Unreliable Narrators and "unnatural sensations":Irony and Consciencein Edgar Allan Poe; 2 "Everywhere ... a Cross-and nastiness at the foot of it":History, Ethics, and Slavery; 3 "Thy catching noblenessunsexes me, my brother":Queer Knowledge inHerman Melville's Pierre; 4 "I was queer company enough-quite as queer as the company I received":; Bibliography; IndexChallenging 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.Judgment in literatureAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismSex in literatureSlavery in literatureJudgment (Ethics)United StatesHistory19th centuryGothic revival (Literature)United StatesJudgment in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.Sex in literature.Slavery in literature.Judgment (Ethics)HistoryGothic revival (Literature)813/.3093552Monnet Agnieszka Soltysik.849677MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792403803321The poetics and politics of the American Gothic3777861UNINA