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04219aam a2200457 i 4500 001 3DE1F32E072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 210210t20212021enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020054467 020 $a 0367538881 020 $a 9780367538880 035 $a (OCoLC)1225975567 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d BDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374.G68 $b L5 2021 082 00 $a 813/.0872909 $2 23 100 1 $a Li, Wanlin, $d 1984- $e author. 245 10 $a Global ambiguity in nineteenth-century American gothic : $b a study in form, history, and culture / $c Wanlin Li ; with a foreword by James Phelan. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2021. 300 $a xiii, 126 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge research in American literature and culture 520 $a "As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of the American gothic, 'global ambiguity,' and examines the important cultural work it performs in the nineteenth-century history of the genre. The author defines 'global ambiguity' as occurring in texts whose internal evidence supports equally plausible and yet mutually exclusive interpretations. Combining insights from narrative theory and cultural studies, she investigates the narrative origin of global ambiguity and the ways in which it produces culturally meaningful readings. Canonical works and obscure ones from American gothic authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry James are reexamined. This study reveals that the nineteenth-century American gothicists developed the gothic into an aesthetically sophisticated mode that engaged intensely with the pressing problems of American society, including moral citizenship, slavery, and the social status of women, and reimagined social realities in politically constructive manners. Literary scholars, students, and general readers interested in gothic literature, American literature, or narrative theory will find this book informative and inspiring"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: A cultural narratological perspective on global ambiguity in the American gothic -- The politics of reading : ambiguity, yellow fever, and citizenship education in Charles B. Brown's Arthur Mervyn -- Edgar Allan Poe's gothic aesthetics and politics : ambiguity and rhetorical sublimity in "Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" -- Navigating the literary marketplace : allegory, gothicism, and ambiguity in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappaccini's daughter" -- Return of the repressed : racial and gender politics in the uncanny gothic of Herman Melville and Louisa May Alcott -- Ambiguity and gender politics of authorship in Henry James' The turn of the screw and "The ghostly rental" -- Conclusion: American gothic as an ambiguous form of cultural and political re-vision. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Narration (Rhetoric) 650 0 $a Ambiguity in literature. 650 7 $a Ambiguity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00806740 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01745573 650 7 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01032927 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Li, Wanlin, 1984- $t Global ambiguity in nineteenth-century American gothic $d Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 $z 9781003083627 $w (DLC) 2020054468 700 1 $a Phelan, James, $e foreword. 830 0 $a Routledge research in American literature and culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022149.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3DE1F32E072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search