美国哥特式的诗学与政治：十九世纪美国文学中的性别与奴隶制-The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in 文件编号：429

标题（title）：The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
美国哥特式的诗学与政治：十九世纪美国文学中的性别与奴隶制
作者（author）：Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
出版社（publisher）：Ashgate
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Taking as its point of departure recent insights about the performative nature of genre, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic challenges the critical tendency to accept at face value that gothic literature is mainly about fear. Instead, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment: how to judge and what happens when judgment is confronted with situations that defy its limits. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Gilman, and James all shared a concern with the political and ideological debates of their time, but tended to approach these debates indirectly. Thus, Monnet suggests, while slavery and race are not the explicit subject matter of antebellum works by Poe and Hawthorne, they nevertheless permeate it through suggestive analogies and tacit references. Similarly, Melville, Gilman, and James use the gothic to explore the categories of gender and sexuality that were being renegotiated during the latter half of the century. Focusing on "The Fall of the House of Usher," The Marble Faun, Pierre, The Turn of the Screw, and "The Yellow Wallpaper," Monnet brings to bear minor texts by the same authors that further enrich her innovative readings of these canonical works. At the same time, her study persuasively argues that the Gothic's endurance and ubiquity are in large part related to its being uniquely adapted to rehearse questions about judgment and justice that continue to fascinate and disturb.
Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 Unreliable Narrators and “unnatural sensations”:Irony and Consciencein Edgar Allan Poe......Page 42
2 “Everywhere ... a Cross—and nastiness at the foot of it”: History, Ethics, and Slavery......Page 66
3 “Thy catching nobleness unsexes me, my brother”: Queer Knowledge in Herman Melville’s Pierre......Page 90
4 “I was queer company enough—quite as queer as the company I received”:......Page 114
Bibliography......Page 150
Index......Page 170

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