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Author:
Silyn Roberts, Siân, author.
Title:
Gothic subjects : the transformation of individualism in American fiction, 1790-1861 / Siân Silyn Roberts.
Publisher:
PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
239 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American--History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Individualism in literature.
Enlightenment--Influence.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the Gothic Enlightenment -- The American transformation of the British individual -- Captivity, incorporation, and the politics of going native -- A mind for the Gothic : common sense and the problem of local culture -- Population and the limits of civil society in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet letter -- Slavery and Gothic form: writing race as the bio-novel.
ISBN:
0812246136 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812246131 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)860943735
LCCN:
2013044476
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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