Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Taking as its point of departure recent insights about the performative nature of genre, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic challenges the critical tendency to accept at face value that gothic literature is mainly about fear. Instead, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American...