02514nam 2200493 450 991081822020332120230627112931.01-78683-756-0(CKB)4100000011964612(MiAaPQ)EBC6644744(Au-PeEL)EBL6644744(OCoLC)1257666686(EXLCZ)99410000001196461220230627d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGothic utterance voice, speech and death in the American gothic /Jimmy Packham1st ed.Cardiff, England :University of Wales Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (174 pages)Gothic Literary StudiesIncludes bibliographical references.Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A note on referencing -- Introduction: American Biloquism -- Part I: Gothic Utterance and Selfhood -- 1 Deadly Locution and Delphic Shrieks: Haunted Significance and the Self -- 2 Cries and Whispers: Spectral Voice, Community and Gothic Consciousness -- Part II: Voices, Soundscapes, Histories -- 3 Howls and Echoes: Frontier Gothic and the Voice of the Wilderness -- 4 (Dis)embodied Utterance and the Peripatetic Voice: Hearing the Haunted Plantation -- 5 Squawking Soldiers and the Babbling Corpse: War-torn Words and the Civil War Gothic -- Conclusion: Quoth the Gothic -- Notes -- Bibliography.Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century, discussing pressing questions of national identity and subjecthood, and emphasising the ethical value of listening to unsettling or distressing voices.Gothic literary studies.American literature1783-1850History and criticismAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismDead in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Dead in literature.813.0872909Packham Jimmy1698884MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818220203321Gothic utterance4080699UNINA