Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic
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American cultural studies
American Gothic
American Gothic Literature
American gothic politics
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Author_Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
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Gothic Criticism
gothic genre political analysis
Grant Wood's American Gothic
Grant Wood's Painting
Grant Wood’s American Gothic
Grant Wood’s Painting
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Hawthorne's Notebooks
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Illegitimate Half Sister
Immoral Moral
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Marble Faun
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- ISBN 9781138260566
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
