An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes
paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in
American literature to highlight their shared qualities Following
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 explores the period of American Realism—the
end of the nineteenth century—to discover evidence of fertile
ground for another age of Gothic proliferation. At first
glance, “Naturalist Gothic” seems to be a contradiction in
terms. While the Gothic is known for its sensational effects, with
its emphasis on horror and the supernatural, the doctrines of late
nineteenth-century Naturalism attempted to move away from the
aesthetics of sentimentality and stressed sobering, mechanistic
views of reality steeped in scientific thought and the determinism
of market values and biology. Nonetheless, what binds Gothicism and
Naturalism together is a vision of shared pessimism and the
perception of a fearful, lingering presence that ominously haunts
an impending modernity. Indeed, it seems that in many Naturalist
works reality is so horrific that it can only be depicted through
Gothic tropes that prefigure the alienation and despair of
modernism. In recent years, research on the Gothic has
flourished, yet there has been no extensive study of the links
between the Gothic and Naturalism, particularly those which stem
from the early American Realist tradition. Haunting Realities is a
timely volume that addresses this gap and is an important addition
to scholarly work on both the Gothic and Naturalism in the American
literary tradition.
General
| Imprint: |
The University of Alabama Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
American Literary Realism & Naturalism |
| Release date: |
July 2022 |
| Editors: |
Monika Elbert
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| Authors: |
Monika Elbert
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| Editors: |
Wendy Ryden
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| Authors: |
Wendy Ryden
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8173-6059-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-8173-6059-X |
| Barcode: |
9780817360597 |
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