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Autore: | Sugars Cynthia |
Titolo: | Canadian gothic : literature, history, and the spectre of self-invention / / Cynthia Sugars ; typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt |
Pubblicazione: | Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813.0872908971 |
Soggetto topico: | Gothic revival (Literature) - Canada |
Canadian literature - History and criticism | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | GauntEira Fenn |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Acknowledgements; Introduction:Settled Unsettlement; or, Familiarizing the Uncanny; 1 Here There Be Monsters: Wilderness Gothic and Psychic Projection; 2 Haunted by a Lack of Ghosts: Gothic Absence and Settler Melancholy; 3 French-Canadian Gothic: Excess as Emplacement; 4 Local Familiars: Gothic Infusion and Settler Indigenization; 5 Playing fort da with History: Settler Postcolonial Gothic; 6 Strangers Within: Unsettling the Canadian Gothic; 7 Indigenous Ghost-Dancing: At Home on Native Land; Conclusion: The Spectre of Self-Invention; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover |
Sommario/riassunto: | Focusing on the ways that Canadian writers turned to the Gothic for its vitalising rather than unsettling potential, this volume offers an important reconsideration of the Gothic legacy in Canada. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Canadian gothic |
ISBN: | 1-78316-000-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464211303321 |
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