LEADER 04989nam 22009253u 450 001 9910780170203321 005 20231212162544.0 010 $a1-58729-302-1 035 $a(CKB)111056486861646 035 $a(EBL)859280 035 $a(OCoLC)50523688 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102101 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11137800 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102101 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10043741 035 $a(PQKB)11674302 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC859280 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486861646 100 $a20131216d1998|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---|||u| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican gothic $enew interventions in a national narrative / edited by Robert K. Martin & Eric Savoy 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 1 $a0-87745-622-4 327 $aContents; Introduction; I. FRAMING THE GOTHIC: THEORIES AND HISTORIES; The Face of the Tenant:A Theory of American Gothic; The Nurture of the Gothic, or How Can a TextBe Both Popular and Subversive?; Dr. Frankenstein Meets Dr. Freud; II. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE GOTHIC; The Gothic Import of Faulkner's ""Black Son"" in Light in August; On Stephen King's Phallus, orThe Postmodern Gothic; III. RACIAL POLITICS IN GOTHIC TEXTS; Slavery and the Gothic Horror of Poe's""The Black Cat""; Haunted by Jim Crow: Gothic Fictionsby Hawthorne and Faulkner Looking into Black Skulls: American Gothic,the Revolutionary Theatre, and Arniri Baraka's DutchmanIV. GOTHIC CURRENTS IN WOMEN'S WRITING; An Ecstasy of Apprehension:The Gothic Pleasures of Sentimental Fiction; The Masochistic Pleasures of the Gothic:Paternal Incest in Alcott's ""A Marble Woman""; If a Building Is a Sentence, So Is a Body:Kathy Acker and the Postcolonial Gothic; V. THE GOTHIC POSTMODERN; Making Monsters, or Serializing Killers; Some Stations of Suburban Gothic; Notes on Contributors; Index 330 8 $aDrawing widely on contemporary theory-particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva-this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy Acker. Special attention is paid to the issues of slavery and race in both black and white texts, including those by Ralph Ellison and William Faulkner. In the view of the editors and contributors, the Gothic is not so much a historical category as a mode of thought haunted by history, a part of suburba 606 $aAmerican fiction -- History and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction 606 $aGothic revival (Literature) -- United States 606 $aHorror tales, American -- History and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aPsychological fiction, American -- History and criticism 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aWomen and literature -- United States 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism$zUnited States 606 $aGothic revival (Literature)$xHistory and criticism$zUnited States 606 $aHorror tales, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aPsychological fiction, American 606 $aWomen and literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aAmerican Literature$2HILCC 615 4$aAmerican fiction -- History and criticism. 615 4$aAmerican fiction. 615 4$aGothic revival (Literature) -- United States. 615 4$aHorror tales, American -- History and criticism. 615 4$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 4$aPsychological fiction, American -- History and criticism. 615 4$aRace relations in literature. 615 4$aWomen and literature -- United States. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aGothic revival (Literature)$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aHorror tales, American$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature 615 0$aPsychological fiction, American 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aRace relations in literature 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aAmerican Literature 676 $a813.0872909 676 $a813/.0872909 701 $aMartin$b Robert K.$f1941-$01520445 701 $aSavoy$b Eric$01578822 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780170203321 996 $aAmerican gothic$93858481 997 $aUNINA