Transnational gothic : literary and social exchanges in the long nineteenth century /
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 Got...
| Други автори: | Elbert, Monika M. 1956-, Marshall, Bridget, 1974- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
℗♭2012.
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Print version::
Transnational gothic. |
Съдържание:
- Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Old World Gothic and the New World Frontier; 1 A Transnational Perspective on American Gothic Criticism; 2 Transcultural Gothic: Isaac Mitchell's Alonzo and Melissa as an Early Example of Popular Culture; 3 The Old Gothic and the New: The Trollopes' Wild West; 4 Frontier Bloodlust in England: American Captivity Narratives and Stoker's Dracula; Part 2: Gothic Catholicism; 5 Demonizing the Catholic Other: Religion and the Secularization Process in Gothic Literature.
- 6 A Woman with a Cross: The Transgressive, Transnational Nun in Anti-Catholic Fiction7 The Paradox of Catholicism in New England Women's Gothic; Part 3: Anglo-American Genre Exchanges: Beyond the Novel; 8 The Haunted Transatlantic Libertine: Edmund Kean's American Tour; 9 Gothic Prosody: Monkish Perversity and the Poetics of Weird Form; 10 Transnational War Gothic from the American Civil War to World War I; Part 4: Social Anxieties and Hauntings; 11 "At rest now": Child Ghosts and Social Justice in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing.
- 12 All This Difficult Darkness: Lynching and the Exorcism of the Black Other13 "Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten": Laying Ghosts in Jamaican Fiction; 14 Stranger Fiction: The Asian Ghost Tales of Rudyard Kipling and Lafcadio Hearn; Index.