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Gothic America - by Teresa Goddu (Paperback)

Name: Gothic America - by Teresa Goddu (Paperback)
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 85242481
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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 Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
About the Author: Teresa A. Goddu is assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where she was a fellow of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
224 Pages
Literary Criticism, Gothic & Romance

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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 Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

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Argues that the claustrophobic horrors of Gothic literature are not private, but arise where concrete experience contradicts the dream world of social myth. This brilliant interpretation of the Gothic treats the nightmares that emerge when the reality of racial oppression disrupts the vision of America as a land of freedom.

About the Author

Teresa A. Goddu is assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where she was a fellow of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.03 Inches (H) x 6.02 Inches (W) x .59 Inches (D)

Weight: .73 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 224

Genre: Literary Criticism

Sub-Genre: Gothic & Romance

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Teresa Goddu

Language: English

Street Date: July 4, 1997

TCIN: 85242481

UPC: 9780231108171

Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-0126

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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