LEADER 03338oam 2200781I 450 001 9910956340003321 005 20251117004924.0 010 $a1-351-88414-X 010 $a1-351-88415-8 010 $a1-315-23780-6 010 $a1-282-54520-5 010 $a9786612545207 010 $a0-7546-9943-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315237800 035 $a(CKB)2670000000018487 035 $a(EBL)513945 035 $a(OCoLC)630537374 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000402305 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11295484 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000402305 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10443091 035 $a(PQKB)10336522 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC513945 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL513945 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10385831 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL254520 035 $a(OCoLC)966310505 035 $a(OCoLC)457768148 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB154296 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000018487 100 $a20180706e20162010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe poetics and politics of the American Gothic $egender and slavery in nineteenth-century American literature /$fAgnieszka Soltysik Monnet 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aFarnham, Surrey, England ;$aBurlington, VT $cAshgate$d2010 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (174 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a1-138-26056-8 311 08$a1-4094-0056-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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; Index 330 $aChallenging 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. 606 $aJudgment in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSex in literature 606 $aSlavery in literature 606 $aJudgment (Ethics)$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zUnited States 615 0$aJudgment in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSex in literature. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 615 0$aJudgment (Ethics)$xHistory 615 0$aGothic revival (Literature) 676 $a813/.3093552 700 $aMonnet$b Agnieszka Soltysik$0849677 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956340003321 996 $aThe poetics and politics of the American Gothic$94475716 997 $aUNINA