LEADER 03525nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910450783303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-420-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447511 035 $a(EBL)837041 035 $a(OCoLC)56109574 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164657 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153412 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164657 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10121401 035 $a(PQKB)11518466 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837041 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12495 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837041 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354613 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447511 100 $a20020402d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGothic passages$b[electronic resource] $eracial ambiguity and the American gothic /$fJustin D. Edwards 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (181 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-824-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [123]-139) and index. 327 $aPreface; 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 Duty 327 $a6. The Haunted House behind the Cedars: CharlesW. Chesnuttand the "White Negro"Epilogue: Twentieth-Century Gothicism andRacial Ambiguity; Notes; Works Cited; Index 330 $aThis 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 us 606 $aHorror tales, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aRacially mixed people in literature 606 $aPassing (Identity) in literature 606 $aAmbiguity in literature 606 $aRace in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHorror tales, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGothic revival (Literature) 615 0$aRacially mixed people in literature. 615 0$aPassing (Identity) in literature. 615 0$aAmbiguity in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a813.0872909355 676 $a813/.0872909355 700 $aEdwards$b Justin D.$f1970-$0704125 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450783303321 996 $aGothic passages$91357457 997 $aUNINA