TY - BOOK ID - 133931 TI - American gothic AU - Martin, Robert K AU - Savoy, Eric PY - 1998 SN - 0877456224 1587293498 9781587293498 9780877456223 1587293021 9781587293023 PB - Iowa City University of Iowa Press DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - American literature KW - Psychological study of literature KW - American fiction KW - Gothic revival (Literature) KW - Horror tales, American KW - Narration (Rhetoric). KW - National characteristics, American, in literature. KW - Psychological fiction, American KW - Race relations in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Race relations in literature KW - Literature KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - History and criticism KW - American fiction -- History and criticism. KW - American fiction. KW - Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States. KW - Horror tales, American -- History and criticism. KW - Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism. KW - Women and literature -- United States. KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - American Literature KW - American psychological fiction KW - Literary movements KW - Revival movements (Art) KW - Romanticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133931 AB - Drawing widely on contemporary theory-particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva-this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy Acker. Special attention is paid to the issues of slavery and race in both black and white texts, including those by Ralph Ellison and William Faulkner. In the view of the editors and contributors, the Gothic is not so much a historical category as a mode of thought haunted by history, a part of suburba ER -