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  • Gothic Melville

    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse, Herman Melville took the critics to task for missing the darkness as the heart of Hawthorne’s writing – a blackness ‘ten times black’, as Melville put it, that fascinated him. Ironically, Melville has been subject to the same treatment by critics who have in large measure steered clear of Melville’s own darkness. The ... Leer más

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  • American Gothic Short Stories

    Series series Gothic Fantasy
    With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this next anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series.As with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce, ... Leer más

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  • Haunting Realities

    Naturalist Gothic and American Realism

    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualitiesFollowing the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities ... Leer más

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  • American Women's Regionalist Fiction

    Mapping the Gothic

    Edición de Monika Elbert, Rita Bode ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic seeks to redress the monolithic vision of American Gothic by analyzing the various sectional or regional attempts to Gothicize what is most claustrophobic or peculiar about local history. Since women writers were often relegated to inferior status, it is especially compelling to look at women from the Gothic perspective. The regionalist ... Leer más

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  • Our Sisters' Keepers

    Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women

    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty reliefAmerican culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of ... Leer más

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  • Transnational Gothic

    Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century

    de Monika Elbert ...
    Offering a variety of critical approaches to late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, this collection provides a transnational view of the emergence and flowering of the Gothic. The essays expand on now well-known approaches to the Gothic (such as those that concentrate exclusively on race, gender, or nation) by focusing on international issues: religious traditions, social ... Leer más

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  • Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

    Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of ... Leer más

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  • Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature

    Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing

    Edición de Susanne Schmid, Monika Elbert ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory. Focusing on the social and imaginary space of the hotel in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and travel accounts, the essays shed new light on nineteenth-century notions of travel writing. Analyzing the liminal space of the ... Leer más

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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries

    Literary and Intellectual Contexts

    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    Considers Gilman’s place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her eraBy placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman believed and preached that no life is ever led in isolation; indeed, ... Leer más

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  • Separate Spheres No More

    Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930

    Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literatureAlthough they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of ... Leer más

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  • Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    National and Transatlantic Contexts

    Edición de Lesley Ginsberg, Monika Elbert ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications attest to an abiding faith in the power of pedagogy that has its roots in transatlantic Romantic conceptions of pedagogy and literacy.The essays in this collection examine the on-going influence of ... Leer más

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  • Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Narratives of Consumption, 1700D1900

    Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from the eighteenth century onwards. Individual essays provide an excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology, philosophy, history, and art history, cultural and postcolonial studies as well ... Leer más

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