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There is a lot of fun to be had in The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture as its argument bounces convincingly from Poe and Hawthorne to King and Oates. It deftly negotiates comics and horror TV, happily juxtaposing Weird fiction and Bradbury, and enjoying the way Rice, Brite, and Burton play goth. While its playful readings explore the extensive intrageneric reflexiveness of gothic forms, it also provides a serious reexamination of the genre's cultural and critical histories: throwing Bourdieu's habitus into the ring with Bakhtin's carnival, it produces a canny and witty mode of criticism informed by affect and practice. --Fred Botting, Kingston University, UK

There is a lot of fun to be had in The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture as its argument bounces convincingly from Poe and Hawthorne to King and Oates. It deftly negotiates comics and horror TV, happily juxtaposing Weird fiction and Bradbury, and enjoying the way Rice, Brite, and Burton play goth. While its playful readings explore the extensive intrageneric reflexiveness of gothic forms, it also provides a serious reexamination of the genre's cultural and critical histories: throwing Bourdieu's habitus into the ring with Bakhtin's carnival, it produces a canny and witty mode of criticism informed by affect and practice. --Fred Botting, Kingston University, UK

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The book is targeted at those with a specialist interest in the American Gothic academics and postgraduates, although it would also appeal to undergraduates and those with an interest in twentieth century American genre

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