The poetics and politics of the American Gothic : gender and slavery in nineteenth-century American literature

Publication Data

• Title The poetics and politics of the American Gothic : gender and slavery in nineteenth-century American literature
• Author Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
• Publisher Ashgate
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Farnham
• Language English

Contents

Unreliable narrators and "unnatural sensations" : irony and conscience in Edgar Allan Poe
"Everywhere
a cross
and nastiness at the foot of it" : history, ethics, and slavery in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
"Thy catching nobleness unsexes me, my brother" : queer knowledge in Herman Melville's Pierre
"I was queer company enough
quite as queer as the company I received" : the queer gothic of Henry James and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Topics

• Judgment in literature
• American fiction :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Sex in literature
• Slavery in literature
• Judgment (Ethics) :: United States :: History :: 19th century
• 015506296

The poetics and politics of the American Gothic : gender and slavery in nineteenth-century American literature by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. ISBN 9781409400561. Published by Ashgate in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.