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The Phantom and the Abyss: The Gothic Fiction in America and Aesthetics of the Sublime 1798-1856 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783631353219)
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xThe 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.
Author: Jacek Fisiak,Marek Wilczynski
ISBN-10: 3631353219
ISBN-13: 9783631353219
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1999
Pages: 285
Format: Paperback
Author: Jacek Fisiak,Marek Wilczynski
ISBN-10: 3631353219
ISBN-13: 9783631353219
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1999
Pages: 285
Format: Paperback
By Jacek Fisiak
xThe Author: Marek Wilczynski, born 1960. Professor of American literature in the Department of English of the University of Poznan, Poland. Junior Fulbright Fellow (1986-1987) and ACLS Research Fellow at Brown University, Providence, R.I. (1993-1994).
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