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Gothic subjects : the transformation of individualism in American fiction, 1790-1861 / Siân Silyn Roberts.
LIBRA PS374.G68 S57 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silyn Roberts, Siân, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Individualism in literature.
- Enlightenment--Influence.
- Enlightenment.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the Gothic Enlightenment
- The American transformation of the British individual
- Captivity, incorporation, and the politics of going native
- A mind for the Gothic: common sense and the problem of local culture
- Population and the limits of civil society in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet letter
- Slavery and Gothic form: writing race as the bio-novel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812246131
- 0812246136
- OCLC:
- 860943735
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