Transnational Gothic
Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2016
Summary
Offering a variety of critical approaches to late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, this collection provides a transnational view of the emergence and flowering of the Gothic. The essays expand on now well-known approaches to the Gothic (such as those that concentrate exclusively on race, gender, or nation) by focusing on international issues: religious traditions, social reform, economic and financial pitfalls, manifest destiny and expansion, changing concepts of nationho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781138245471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 113824547X |
| Author: | Monika Elbert, Bridget M. Marshall |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 530g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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’… satisfying collection of essays … [the editors] situation the thrust of the collection away from narrower concerns of extremes and limits of genres relating to monsters residing on a cultural periphery by seeing Gothic writers bringing ‘national secrets into the light of a more egalitarian and global context’.’ Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies ‘This collection of essays on the transnational Gothic makes a timely contribution to a growing scholarship on global exchanges between literatures. … will shape future scholarly analysis of a unified, complex Gothic.’ Keats-Shelley Journal ‘With strong underlying currents that include the frontier, Indian wars, slavery and the Civil War, it remains primarily of interest to scholars of American literature, and the American Gothic in particular, but enriches the reader’s understanding of what these terms might fully entail, and does a very good job of filling in the blanks of what emerges, like the United States, as the product of a complex and fascinating web of global exchanges and interactions.’ Supernatural Studies
About The Author
Monika Elbert
Monika Elbert is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Montclair State University and serves as editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. Bridget M. Marshall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and the author of The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790 - 1860.
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