Global ambiguity in nineteenth-century American gothic : a study in form, history, and culture

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"Global ambiguity in nineteenth-century American gothic : a study in form, history, and culture"
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Wanlin Li ; with a foreword by James Phelan
出版者
  • Routledge
出版年月
  • 2021
書籍サイズ
25 cm
シリーズ名/番号
  • : hbk
タイトル別名
  • Global ambiguity in 19th-century American gothic

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Summary: "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. The author defines 'global ambiguity' as occurring in texts whose internal evidence supports equally plausible and yet mutually exclusive interpretations. Combining insights from narrative theory and cultural studies, she investigates the narrative origin of global ambiguity and the ways in which it produces culturally meaningful readings. Canonical works and obscure ones from American gothic authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry James are reexamined. This study reveals that the nineteenth-century American gothicists developed the gothic into an aesthetically sophisticated mode..."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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