{"product_id":"gothic-america-narrative-history-and-nation-paperback","title":"Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTeresa Goddu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gothic novel -the literary stronghold of ghosts, family curses, imperiled heroines and cumbersome plots- might be thought to fall under the category of \"escapist fiction.\" But in this groundbreaking reappraisal, Teresa Goddu demonstrates that the American Gothic novel was, in often surprising ways, actively engaged with social, political, and cultural concerns of its time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough social dislocations such as slavery or the massacre of Native Americans were repressed by our national conciousness, Goddu points out that these subjects were effectively incorporated by the gothic novel, articulated into an enduring national identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, \u003ci\u003eGothic America\u003c\/i\u003e traces the development of the genre as a whole and of several subgenres -the female gothic, the Southern gothic, and the African-American gothic. Among the works Goddu reexamines are Poe's \u003ci\u003eNarrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, \u003c\/i\u003e Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Seven Gables\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Blithedale Romance, \u003c\/i\u003e Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs' \u003ci\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.\u003c\/i\u003e It is, finally, the African-American gothic that illuminates most clearly the link between frightening literature and a horror-filled social reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQuestioning basic assumptions about America's identity, \u003ci\u003eGothic America\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh examination of both a much-neglected genre of American literature and the complex historical circumstances that produced it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeresa A. Goddu is assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where she was a fellow of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9.03 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 04, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702381965619,"sku":"9780231108171","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eFJURm9YbHp6MERLRXBwMkhrVWlBUT09.webp?v=1763305180","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/gothic-america-narrative-history-and-nation-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}