Wanlin Li

Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic (eBook, ePUB)

A Study in Form, History, and Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of the American gothic, "global ambiguity," and examines the important cultural work it performs in the nineteenth-century history of the genre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000391848
• Artikelnr.: 61429665

Autorenporträt

Wanlin Li is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Peking University. Her teaching and research interests include gothic literature, nineteenth-century American literature, and narrative theory. Her publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative,Style, Journal of Narrative Theory, and many leading journals of literary studies in China, including Foreign Literature Review, Foreign Literature, and Foreign Literatures.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A Cultural Narratological Perspective on Global Ambiguity
in the American Gothic 2. The Politics of Reading: Ambiguity, Yellow Fever,
and Citizenship Education in Charles B. Brown's Arthur Mervyn 3. Edgar
Allan Poe's Gothic Aesthetics and Politics: Ambiguity and Rhetorical
Sublimity in "Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" 4. Navigating
the Literary Marketplace: Allegory, Gothicism, and Ambiguity in Hawthorne's
"Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappaccini's Daughter" 5. Return of the
Repressed: Racial and Gender Politics in the Uncanny Gothic of Herman
Melville and Louisa May Alcott 6. Ambiguity and Gender Politics of
Authorship in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and "The Ghostly Rental"