The Phantom and the Abyss
The Gothic Fiction in America and Aesthetics of the Sublime 1798-1856
Series: Polish Studies in English Language and Literature; 2;
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Product details:
- Edition number Neuausg.
- Publisher Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- Date of Publication 1 January 1999
- ISBN 9783631353219
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages285 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Weight 380 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
The book focuses on the evolution of the Gothic fiction in America from Charles Brockden Brown to Herman Melville in the context of the aesthetics of the sublime. Starting with a reading of Brown's Gothic romances - Wieland and Edgar Huntly - and concluding with an analysis of Melville's Pierre , the author demonstrates the relevance of the Kantian concept of the sublime for the nineteenth-century American literature of horror. An inspiration to present the development of the American Gothic in the period under scrutiny as a coherent process has been also the psychoanalytic theory of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. Moreover, the study contains an attempt to place R.H. Dana, Sr and W. Allston in the American literary canon.
MoreTable of Contents:
Contents: Gothic fiction
- Aesthetics of the sublime
- Transgenerational phantom
- Incorporation
- American Romanticism
- American literary canon.
The Phantom and the Abyss: The Gothic Fiction in America and Aesthetics of the Sublime 1798-1856
26 938 HUF
