Gothic America
Narrative, History, and Nation
by Teresa A. Goddu
226 pages· 1997· ISBN 9780231108171
About
Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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