Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic: A Study in Form, History, and Culture

Author:   Wanlin Li
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367538880


Pages:   126
Publication Date:   27 May 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Wanlin Li
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367538880


ISBN 10:   0367538881
Pages:   126
Publication Date:   27 May 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"1. Introduction: A Cultural Narratological Perspective on Global Ambiguity in the American Gothic 2. The Politics of Reading: Ambiguity, Yellow Fever, and Citizenship Education in Charles B. Brown’s Arthur Mervyn 3. Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Aesthetics and Politics: Ambiguity and Rhetorical Sublimity in ""Ligeia"" and ""The Fall of the House of Usher"" 4. Navigating the Literary Marketplace: Allegory, Gothicism, and Ambiguity in Hawthorne’s ""Young Goodman Brown"" and ""Rappaccini’s Daughter"" 5. Return of the Repressed: Racial and Gender Politics in the Uncanny Gothic of Herman Melville and Louisa May Alcott 6. Ambiguity and Gender Politics of Authorship in Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and ""The Ghostly Rental"""

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Wanlin Li is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Peking University. Her teaching and research interests include gothic literature, nineteenth-century American literature, and narrative theory. Her publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative,Style, Journal of Narrative Theory, and many leading journals of literary studies in China, including Foreign Literature Review, Foreign Literature, and Foreign Literatures.

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