American Gothic Literature
Subtitle: A Thematic Study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead
Publisher: McFarland
Published: Nov 30, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780786498512
Description: "American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation: anxiety about power and property. The aristocratic villain is replaced by the striving, independent young man. The dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans add urgency to traditional Gothic anxieties about possession"--
Notes: Source title: American Gothic Literature: A Thematic Study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead