03491nam 2200685Ia 450 991081990620332120200520144314.01-58729-420-6(CKB)1000000000447511(EBL)837041(OCoLC)56109574(SSID)ssj0000164657(PQKBManifestationID)11153412(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164657(PQKBWorkID)10121401(PQKB)11518466(MdBmJHUP)muse12495(Au-PeEL)EBL837041(CaPaEBR)ebr10354613(MiAaPQ)EBC837041(EXLCZ)99100000000044751120020402d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGothic passages[electronic resource] racial ambiguity and the American gothic /Justin D. EdwardsIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20031 online resource (181 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-824-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-139) and index.Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Creating A Self in the Antebellum Gothic Narrative; 1. Hybrid Bodies and Gothic Narratives in Poe's Pym; 2. Gothic Travels in Melville's Benito Cereno; 3. Passing and Abjection in William and Ellen Craft's Runninga Thousand Miles for Freedom; PART TWO Exploring Identity in Postbellum Gothic Discourse; 4. The Epistemology of the Body; or, Gothic Secrets inFrances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy; 5. Genetic Atavism and the Return of the Repressed inWilliam Dean Howells's An Imperative Duty6. The Haunted House behind the Cedars: CharlesW. Chesnuttand the "White Negro"Epilogue: Twentieth-Century Gothicism andRacial Ambiguity; Notes; Works Cited; IndexThis groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.By bringing together these areas of analysis, Justin Edwards considers the following questions. How are the categories of "race" and the rhetoric of racial difference tied to the language of gothicism? What can these discursive ties tell us about a range of social boundaries-gender, sexuality, class, race, etc.-during the nineteenth century? What can the construction and destabilization of these social boundaries tell usHorror tales, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismGothic revival (Literature)United StatesRacially mixed people in literaturePassing (Identity) in literatureAmbiguity in literatureRace in literatureHorror tales, AmericanHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Gothic revival (Literature)Racially mixed people in literature.Passing (Identity) in literature.Ambiguity in literature.Race in literature.813.0872909355813/.0872909355Edwards Justin D.1970-704125MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819906203321Gothic passages1357457UNINA