The poetics and politics of the American Gothic
Subtitle: gender and slavery in nineteenth-century American literature
By: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781409400561; 9780754699439
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-158) and index.
Table of contents: title: Unreliable narrators and "unnatural sensations" : irony and conscience in Edgar Allan Poe; title: "Everywhere; title: a cross; title: and nastiness at the foot of it" : history, ethics, and slavery in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun; title: "Thy catching nobleness unsexes me, my brother" : queer knowledge in Herman Melville's Pierre; title: "I was queer company enough; title: quite as queer as the company I received" : the queer gothic of Henry James and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.