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Gothic passages : racial ambiguity and the American gothic / / Justin D. Edwards



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Autore: Edwards Justin D. <1970-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gothic passages : racial ambiguity and the American gothic / / Justin D. Edwards Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (181 p.)
Disciplina: 813.0872909355
813/.0872909355
Soggetto topico: Horror tales, American - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Gothic revival (Literature) - United States
Racially mixed people in literature
Passing (Identity) in literature
Ambiguity in literature
Race in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-139) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Duty
6. The Haunted House behind the Cedars: CharlesW. Chesnuttand the "White Negro"Epilogue: Twentieth-Century Gothicism andRacial Ambiguity; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This 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
Titolo autorizzato: Gothic passages  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-420-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819906203321
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