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<p>The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture offers a new account of the American Gothic. Gothic studies, the field that explores horrid and frightful narratives, usually describes the genre as exploring genuine historical fears, crises and traumas, yet this does not account for the ways in which the genre is often a source of wicked delight as much as it is of horror – its audiences laugh as often as they shriek. This book traces the carnivalesque tradition in the American Gothic fro

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Author

Timothy Willem Jones

Publisher

Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press; University of Wales Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783162307

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-24