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Global ambiguity in nineteenth-century American gothic : a study in form, history, and culture / Wanlin Li ; with a foreword by James Phelan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Wanlin, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in American literature and culture
- 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.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Ambiguity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 126 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Wanlin Li is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Peking University. Her teaching and research interests include gothic literature, nineteenth-century American literature, and narrative theory. Her publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative, Style, Journal of Narrative Theory, and many leading journals of literary studies in China, including Foreign Literature Review, Foreign Literature, and Foreign Literatures.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A cultural narratological perspective on global ambiguity in the American gothic
- The politics of reading : ambiguity, yellow fever, and citizenship education in Charles B. Brown's Arthur Mervyn
- Edgar Allan Poe's gothic aesthetics and politics : ambiguity and rhetorical sublimity in "Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- Navigating the literary marketplace : allegory, gothicism, and ambiguity in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappaccini's daughter"
- Return of the repressed : racial and gender politics in the uncanny gothic of Herman Melville and Louisa May Alcott
- Ambiguity and gender politics of authorship in Henry James' The turn of the screw and "The ghostly rental"
- Conclusion: American gothic as an ambiguous form of cultural and political re-vision.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 04, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Li, Wanlin, 1984- Global ambiguity in nineteenth-century American gothic
- ISBN:
- 9781003083627
- 1003083625
- 9781000391824
- 1000391825
- 9781000391848
- 1000391841
- Publisher Number:
- 40030651708
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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