The poetics and politics of the American gothic
Subtitle: gender and slavery in nineteenth-century American literature
By: by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409400561; 9780754699439
Subjects: Judgment in literature; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Sex in literature; Slavery in literature; Judgment (Ethics) -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unreliable narrators and "unnatural sensations": irony and conscience in Edgar Allan Poe; title: "Everywhere . . . a cross' 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 quite as queer as the company I received": the queer gothic of Henry James and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.