The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture
The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture offers a new account of the American Gothic. Gothic studies, the field that explores horrid and frightful narratives, usually describes the genre as exploring genuine historical fears, crises and traumas, yet this does not account for the ways in which the genre is often a source of wicked delight as much as it is of horror - its audiences laugh as often as they shriek. This book traces the carnivalesque tradition in the American Gothic from the nineteenth into the late twentieth century. It discusses the festivals offered by Poe, Hawthorne and Irving; the celebrations of wickedness offered…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78316-231-4
- EAN: 9781783162314
- Produktnummer: 20529717
- Verlag: University of Wales Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 615 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Timothy Jones is a lecturer in English at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
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