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Gothic passages : racial ambiguity and the American gothic

Title
Gothic passages : racial ambiguity and the American gothic / Justin D. Edwards.
Author
Edwards, Justin D., 1970-
Publication
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2003.

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Description
xxxiii, 145 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Horror tales, American > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Gothic revival (Literature) > United States
  • Racially mixed people in literature
  • Passing (Identity) in literature
  • Ambiguity in literature
  • Race in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-139) and index.
Contents
Hybrid bodies and gothic narratives in Poe's Pym -- Gothic travels in Melville's Benito Cereno -- Passing and abjection in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom -- The epistemology of the body; or, gothic secrets in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy -- Genetic atavism and the return of the repressed in William Dean Howell's An imperative duty -- The haunted house behind the cedars: Charles W. Chesnutt and the "white negro" -- Epilogue: twentieth-century gothicism and racial ambiguity.
Call Number
Sc E 03-196
ISBN
0877458243 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002066493
OCLC
49559013
Author
Edwards, Justin D., 1970-
Title
Gothic passages : racial ambiguity and the American gothic / Justin D. Edwards.
Imprint
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2003.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-139) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 03-196
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