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Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic - A Study in Form, History, and Culture (Hardcover)
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Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic - A Study in Form, History, and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
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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.
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