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Canadian gothic : literature, history, and the spectre of self-invention / Cynthia Sugars ; typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sugars, Cynthia Conchita, 1963-
- Series:
- Gothic literary studies.
- Gothic Literary Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic revival (Literature)--Canada.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Canadian literature--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on the ways that Canadian writers turned to the Gothic for its vitalising rather than unsettling potential, this volume offers an important reconsideration of the Gothic legacy in Canada.
- Contents:
- Cover; Acknowledgements; Introduction:Settled Unsettlement; or, Familiarizing the Uncanny; 1 Here There Be Monsters: Wilderness Gothic and Psychic Projection; 2 Haunted by a Lack of Ghosts: Gothic Absence and Settler Melancholy; 3 French-Canadian Gothic: Excess as Emplacement; 4 Local Familiars: Gothic Infusion and Settler Indigenization; 5 Playing fort da with History: Settler Postcolonial Gothic; 6 Strangers Within: Unsettling the Canadian Gothic; 7 Indigenous Ghost-Dancing: At Home on Native Land; Conclusion: The Spectre of Self-Invention; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 10, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-78316-000-4
- OCLC:
- 870951025
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