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  1. Gothic to multicultural
    idioms of imagining in American literary fiction
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9042024992; 9789042024991
    RVK Categories: HR 1700 ; HR 1800
    Series: Costerus ; new ser., v. 178
    Subjects: American fiction; American fiction; American prose literature; Books and reading; Criticism; Novelists, American; Autorschaft; Epik
    Scope: 543 p
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Gothic to multicultural
    idioms of imagining in American literary fiction
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction , twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The collection opens with considerations of gothic as... more

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    Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction , twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The collection opens with considerations of gothic as light and dark in Charles Brockden Brown, war and peace in Cooper's The Spy , Antarctica as world-genesis in Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym , the link of "The Custom House" and main text in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter , reflexive codings in Melville's Moby-Dick and The Confidence-Man , Henry James' Hawthorne as self-mirroring biography, an

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9042024992; 9789042024991
    Series: Costerus. New series ; 178
    Subjects: American fiction; Novelists, American; Criticism; American fiction; American prose literature; Books and reading
    Scope: Online-Ressource (543 p)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

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    Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Pathways, Bearings ; 1. A Darkness Visible: Gothic and the Case of Charles Brockden Brown ; 1. Making History, Making Fiction: Cooper's The Spy ; 3. Impudent and Ingenious Fiction: Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; 4. Like a Dream Behind Me: Hawthorne's ""The Custom-House"" and The Scarlet Letter ; 5. The Mirrors of Biography, the Mirrors of Fiction: Henry James' Hawthorne ; 6. Moby-Dick as Anatomy ; 7. Voices Off, On, and Beyond: Ventriloquy in The Confidence-Man

    8. Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage: The Novella as Moving Box 9. Hell's Loose: Apocalypse in the Early and Modern African American Novel ; 10. Woman's Place? The Landscapes of Jewett, Chopin, Cather, Hurson, Welty, Chavez, Yamashita, Silko ; 11. Odd Man Out? Henry James, the Canon and The Princess Casamissima ; 12. Watching Manners: Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence ; 13. A Quality of Distortion: Imagining The Great Gatsby ; 14. Everything Completely Knit Up: Seeing For Whom the Bell Tolls Whole

    15. Modernist Faulkner: A Yoknapatawpha Trilogy 16. The View From the Rear Window: The Fiction of Cornell Woolrich ; 17. Richard Wright's Inside Narratives ; 18. Violence Become a Form: The Novels of Chester Himes ; 19. Flunking Everything Else Except English Anyway: Holden Caulfield, Author ; 20. The Place We have Come To: The Late Fiction of Robert Penn Warren ; 21. Harlem on My Mind: Fictions of a Black Metropolis ; 22. Down Home: Mapping the South in Contemporary African American Fiction ; 23. I Am Your Worst Nightmare: I Am An Indian with a Pen - Fictions of the Indian, Native Fictions

    Index