Poetics and politics of the american gothic, the: gender and slavery in nineteenth-century american literature
Auteur :
Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781409400561
Date de publication :
28 mai 2010
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
476 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Challenging the critical tendency to accept at face value that gothic literature is mainly about fear, this title instead 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 limits.