Gothic America

1997 History

Author : Teresa A. Goddu
Release : 1997
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Gothic America by : Teresa A. Goddu

Download or read book Gothic America written by Teresa A. Goddu. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Darkly

2019-11-12 History

Author : Leila Taylor
Release : 2019-11-12
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 557/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Darkly by : Leila Taylor

Download or read book Darkly written by Leila Taylor. This book was released on 2019-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards—the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly explores American culture’s inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning. If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is

American Gothic

2005 Art

Author : Steven Biel
Release : 2005
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 120/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book American Gothic written by Steven Biel. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Grant Wood's portrait of Iowa farmers, and documents how the piece has represented midwestern Puritanism, hard-working endurance, and the often-parodied American heartland.

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture

2013-10-31 Performing Arts

Author : B. Murphy
Release : 2013-10-31
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 724/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture written by B. Murphy. This book was released on 2013-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts.

History of the Gothic: American Gothic

2009-04-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Charles L. Crow
Release : 2009-04-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book History of the Gothic: American Gothic written by Charles L. Crow. This book was released on 2009-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.

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