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Argues that popular tales of horror and fantasy are an integral part of a network of historical representation in the US, challenging the assessment of the genre as escapist. Shows how Charles Brockdon Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, and other writers present distorted versions of such cultural horrors as revolution, Indian massacre, the transformation of the marketplace, and above all slavery. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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Teresa A. Goddu is assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where she was a fellow of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
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- PublisherColumbia Univ Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0231108168
- ISBN 13 9780231108164
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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Gothic America Narrative, History & Nation: Narrative, History and Nation
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ISBN 10: 0231108168
ISBN 13: 9780231108164
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