{"product_id":"haunting-realities-monika-elbert-9780817360597","title":"Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Following the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic's pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, \u003ci\u003eHaunting Realities\u003c\/i\u003e explores the period of American Realism--the end of the nineteenth century--to discover evidence of fertile ground for another age of Gothic proliferation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At first glance, \"Naturalist Gothic\" seems to be a contradiction in terms. While the Gothic is known for its sensational effects, with its emphasis on horror and the supernatural, the doctrines of late nineteenth-century Naturalism attempted to move away from the aesthetics of sentimentality and stressed sobering, mechanistic views of reality steeped in scientific thought and the determinism of market values and biology. Nonetheless, what binds Gothicism and Naturalism together is a vision of shared pessimism and the perception of a fearful, lingering presence that ominously haunts an impending modernity. Indeed, it seems that in many Naturalist works reality is so horrific that it can only be depicted through Gothic tropes that prefigure the alienation and despair of modernism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In recent years, research on the Gothic has flourished, yet there has been no extensive study of the links between the Gothic and Naturalism, particularly those which stem from the early American Realist tradition. \u003ci\u003eHaunting Realities\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely volume that addresses this gap and is an important addition to scholarly work on both the Gothic and Naturalism in the American literary tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Monika Elbert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081736059X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817360597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Monika Elbert","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059861287167,"sku":"9780817360597","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_847843f7-cf0f-42aa-a216-4ceab22e9d68.jpg?v=1685060748","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/haunting-realities-monika-elbert-9780817360597","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}