A passion for consumption
Subtitle: the Gothic novel in America
By: Anna Sonser.
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Bowling Green, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Horror tales, American -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States; Economics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Consumption (Economics) in literature
Description: "Offering a fresh perspective on the gothic novel in America, this study engages the underlying currents that define American culture as one of consumption through the rereading of canonical texts that range from Hawthorne, Poe, James, and Faulkner to the contemporary gothic novels of Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Rice.".

"By exposing the literary motifs of subversion and seduction inherent in these works as disruptive to the flow, circulation, and expansion of value, A Passion for Consumption positions American literary culture as an extension of commodity economics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-157) and index.