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Hardcover The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Book

ISBN: 1409400565

ISBN13: 9781409400561

The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Taking as its point of departure recent insights about the performative nature of genre, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic challenges the critical tendency to accept at face value that gothic literature is mainly about fear. Instead, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment: how to judge and what happens when judgment is confronted with situations that defy its...

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