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African American gothic : screams from shadowed places
\"African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places is a new study of African American literary interventions into the gothic genre. The book investigates how African American authors have utilized the genre since its very beginnings in America to represent the real horrors of Black life in country haunted by racism. Re-reading major African American literary texts--such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Of One Blood, Cane, Invisible Man, and Corregidora--African American Gothic investigates texts from each major era in African American Culture to show how the gothic has consistently circulated throughout the African American literary canon\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Did Howells Give Up on Realism?
The turn of the twentieth century witnessed Howells's serializing his Altrurian romances-A Traveler from Altruria (1892-93), \"Letters of an Altrurian Traveller\" (1893-94), and Through the Eye of the Needle (1907).1 The majority of this utopian trilogy traces the experiences and impressions of Aristides Homos (Greek for \"best man\"), a traveler from the fictitious land of Altruria, so called for its adoption of altruism in all areas of life, public and private. [...]as I shall suggest over the course of this essay, their literary shortcomings are, paradoxically, the source of their appeal. (Howells would go on to incorporate a few of the letters describing New York City's landscape into Impressions and Experiences [1896], removing all references to Homos and softening the socialist implications.) Chastened, even if titillated, by the reception of \"Letters,\" Howells would strike a formal compromise in the final installment of the trilogy: he retained the epistolary structure in Through the Eye of the Needle yet amplified its fictitiousness in large part by transferring the setting from New York to the imaginary island of Altruria. Needless to say, these discourses do not resemble one another stylistically-Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes is composed nothing like a William James essay or a presidential address from Wilson-but, in Cadle's account, the point is that they operate to the same effect (viz., that of \"constructing a more dynamic narrative of the United States' role in world affairs\").10 While I personally find Cadle's take on the Progressive Era persuasive in many respects, one needn't agree with it to glean from his study how much realism constituted for Howells a way of doing things rather than a catalog of literary features.
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Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Scottish Gothic
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The Romance Revival
‘It is not needful, nor indeed is it possible, to define Romance,’ Sir Walter Raleigh, first Oxford Professor of English Literature, told his Princeton audience in 1915, and immediately went on to contradict himself. He discussed the origins and development of romance, ‘a perennial form of modern literature’ recurring in every period, and most notably in the ‘romance revival’ of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which rediscovered the medieval as the Renaissance had rediscovered the classical. The romance revival with which this book deals happened much closer to Raleigh’s own time, in the 1880s and 90s. It was
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Monstrous media/spectral subjects : imaging gothic from the nineteenth century to the present
Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that emerging media technologies from the phantasmagoria and magic lantern to the hand-held video camera and the personal computer both shape Gothic subjects and in turn become Gothicised.
In a collection of essays that ranges from the Victorian fiction of Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker and Richard Marsh to the music of Tom Waits, world horror cinema and the TV series Doctor Who, this book finds fresh and innovative contexts for the study of Gothic. Combining essays by well-established and emerging scholars, it should appeal to academics and students researching both Gothic literature and culture and the cultural impact of new technologies.
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Women and the Gothic
This collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of 'Women and the Gothic'.
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Gothic Literature
New edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literatureThis revised edition includes:A new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twenty first century and looks at new critical developmentsAn updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised Chronology
The book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, films, radio and television. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of a specific text - Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Silence of the Lambs and The Historian - to illustrate ways in which contextual discussion informs critical analysis. The book ends with a Conclusion outlining possible future developments within scholarship on the Gothic.
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Canadian gothic
This book explores the Gothic tradition in Canadian literature by tracing a distinctive reworking of the British Gothic in Canada. It traces the ways the Gothic genre was reinvented for a specifically Canadian context. On the one hand, Canadian writers expressed anxiety about the applicability of the British Gothic tradition to the colonies; on the other, they turned to the Gothic for its vitalising rather than unsettling potential. After charting this history of Gothic infusion, Canadian Gothic turns its attention to the body of Aboriginal and diasporic writings that respond to this discourse of national self-invention from a post-colonial perspective. These counter-narratives unsettle the naturalising force of this invented history, rendering the sense of Gothic comfort newly strange. The Canadian Gothic tradition has thus been a conflicted one, which reimagines the Gothic as a form of cultural sustenance. This volume offers an important reconsideration of the Gothic legacy in Canada.
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Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination
In Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the literature of the United States. In this tradition, Catholicism is depicted as threatening to break down borders separating American citizens-or some representative American-from a larger world beyond. While earlier studies of Catholicism in the American literary imagination have tended to highlight the faith's historical association with Europe, O'Gorman stresses how that imagination often responds to a Catholicism associated with Latin America and the Caribbean. On a deeper level, O'Gorman demonstrates how the Gothic tradition he traces here builds on and ultimately transforms the persistent image in modern Anglophone literature of Catholicism as \"a religion without a country; indeed, a religion inimical to nationhood.\" O'Gorman focuses on the work of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Cormac McCarthy, and selected contemporary writers including Toni Morrison. These authors, representing historical periods from the early republic to the present day, have distinct experiences of borders within and around their nation and hemisphere, itself an ever-emergent \"America.\" As O'Gorman carefully documents, they also have distinct experiences of Catholicism and distinct ways of imagining the faith, often shaped at least in part within the Church itself. In their narratives, Catholicism plays a complicated and profound role that ultimately challenges longstanding notions of American exceptionalism and individual autonomy. This analysis contributes not only to discourse regarding Gothic literature and nationalism but also to a broader ongoing dialogue regarding religion, secularism, and American literature.
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Historical dictionary of gothic literature
Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than others, like Gothic literature which has existed ever since The Castle of Otranto in 1764. During this long while, it has spread from England, to the rest of Great Britain, and across to the continent, and off to America and Australia, filling in the gaps more recently. Most of it is in English, but hardly all, and it has adopted all styles, from romanticism, to modernism, to postmodernism and even adjusted to feminist and queer literature, and science fiction. We have all, read some Gothic tales or if not read then seen them in the cinema, since they adapt well to film treatment, and it would be hard to find anyone who has not heard of ghosts and vampires, let alone Count Dracula and Frankenstein. On the other hand, some of us are inveterate Gothic fans, reading one book or story after the other. The Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature follows this long and winding path, first in an extensive chronology and then a useful introduction which explains the nature of Gothic and shows how it has evolved. Obviously, the dictionary section has entries on major writers, and some of the best-known works, but also on geographical variants like Irish, Scottish or Russian Gothic and Female Gothic, Queer Gothic and Science Fiction. This is provided in over 200 often substantial and always intriguing entries. More can be found in a detailed bibliography, including general works but also more specialized ones on different styles and genres, and also specific authors. This book should certainly interest the fans but also more serious researchers.
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