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Gothic utterance : voice, speech and death in the American gothic
- Title
- Gothic utterance : voice, speech and death in the American gothic / Jimmy Packham.
- Author
- Packham, Jimmy
- Publication
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 252 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In-depth analysis of the American Gothic and the utterances of marginalized voices. The Gothic has always been interested in strange utterances and unsettling voices, from half-heard ghostly murmurings to the terrible cries of the monstrous nonhuman. Gothic Utterance offers the first book-length study of the role such voices play in the Gothic tradition, exploring their prominence and importance in the literature produced in America between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century. This book argues that the American Gothic foregrounds the overpowering effect and meaning of the voices of those on the margins of society, as well as the ethical charge of our encounter with such voices."--
- Series Statement
- Gothic literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Gothic literary studies.
- Subject
- 1783-1899
- Gothic revival (Literature) > United States > History and criticism
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American > History and criticism
- American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism
- American literature > 19th century > History and cricitism
- Dead in literature
- Voice in literature
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
- American literature
- Gothic revival (Literature)
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: American Biloquism -- Part I: Gothic Utterance and Selfhood -- Deadly Locution and Delphic Shrieks: Haunted Significance and the Self -- Cries and Whispers: Spectral Voice, Community and Gothic Consciousness -- Part II: Voices, Soundscapes, Histories -- Howls and Echoes: Frontier Gothic and the Voice of the Wilderness -- (Dis)embodied Utterance and the Peripatetic Voice: Hearing the Haunted Plantation -- Squawking Soldiers and the Babbling Corpse: War-torn Words and Civil War Gothic -- Conclusion: Quoth the Gothic.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-187
- ISBN
- 9781786837547
- 1786837544
- OCLC
- 1247943179
- Author
- Packham, Jimmy, author.
- Title
- Gothic utterance : voice, speech and death in the American gothic / Jimmy Packham.
- Publisher
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Gothic literary studiesGothic literary studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1783-1899
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781786837561
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-187