About this title: The gothic novel -the literary stronghold of ghosts, family curses, imperiled heroines and cumbersome plots- might be thought to fall under the category of "escapist fiction." But in this groundbreaking reappraisal, Teresa Goddu demonstrates that the American Gothic novel was, in often surprising ways, actively engaged with social, political, and cultural concerns of its time. Although social dislocations such as slavery or the massacre of Native Americans were repressed by our national conciousness, Goddu points out that these subjects were effectively incorporated by the gothic novel, ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780231108171ISBN:0231108176
Description: Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, " Hawthorne's "The Blithedale Roma... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN-13:9780231108171ISBN:0231108176
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