History of the Gothic - American Gothic

Klappentext Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years! as well as within the issues critical to American culture! this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers! from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture! explores forbidden subjects! and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced. Zusammenfassung Defines the American Gothic and places it both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history and also within the context of the main issues of American culture.

Product details

• Authors: Charles L. Crow
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.09.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780708320082
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2008-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Gothic Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; american, History, Gothic, of, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form