Gothic America Narrative, History, and Nation |
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| Author:
| Goddu, Teresa |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-10817-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1997 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.00 |
Book Description:
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Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.