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

by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409400565
• ISBN13: 9781409400561
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"