Monika Elbert

Transnational Gothic (eBook, ePUB)

Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century
Redaktion: Marshall, Bridget M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a variety of approaches to late eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, this collection provides a transnational view of the emergence and flowering of the Gothic. Its focus on British, American, Continental, Caribbean and Asian literature deepens our understanding of the Gothic as not merely a national but a global aesthetic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317006879
• Artikelnr.: 44782771

Autorenporträt

Monika Elbert is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Montclair State University and serves as editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. Bridget M. Marshall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and the author of The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790 - 1860.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Bridget M. Marshall and Monika Elbert; Part 1 Old
World Gothic and the New World Frontier: A transnational perspective on
American Gothic criticism, Siân Silyn Roberts; The transatlantic Gothic of
Isaac Mitchell's Alonzo and Melissa as an early example of popular culture,
Christian Knirsch; The old Gothic and the new: the Trollopes' wild West,
Tamara Wagner; Frontier bloodlust in England: American captivity narratives
and Stoker's Dracula, Roland Finger. Part 2 Gothic Catholicism: Demonizing
the Catholic other: religion and the secularization process in Gothic
literature, Diane Long Hoeveler; A woman with a cross: the transgressive,
transnational nun in anti-Catholic fiction, Nancy F. Sweet; The paradox of
Catholicism in New England women's Gothic, Monika Elbert. Part 3
Anglo-American Genre Exchanges: Beyond the Novel: The haunted transatlantic
libertine: Edmund Kean's American tour, Melissa Wehler; Gothic prosody:
monkish perversity and the poetics of weird form, Daniel Robinson;
Transnational war Gothic from the American Civil War to World War I,
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Part 4 Social Anxieties and Hauntings: 'At rest
now': child ghosts and social justice in 19th-century women's writing,
Roxanne Harde; All this difficult darkness: lynching and the exorcism of
the Black other in Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff', Keith B. Mitchell;
'Duppy know who fi frighten': laying ghosts in Jamaican fiction, Candace
Ward; Stranger fiction: the Asian ghost tales of Rudyard Kipling and
Lafcadio Hearn, Mary Goodwin; Index.