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American Women's Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic (Palgrave Gothic) by Monika Elbert, Rita Bode, Marjorie Pryse, Kate Chopin, Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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American Women's Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic  seeks to redress the monolithic vision of American Gothic by analyzing the various sectional or regional attempts to Gothicize what is most claustrophobic or peculiar about local history. Since women writers were often relegated to inferior status, it is especially compelling to look at women from the Gothic perspective. The regionalist Gothic develops along the line of difference and not unity—thus emphasizing regional peculiarities or a sense of superiority in terms of regional history, natural landscapes, immigrant customs, folk tales, or idiosyncratic ways.  The essays study the uncanny or the haunting quality of "the commonplace," as Hawthorne would have it in his introduction to  The House of the Seven Gables,   in regionalist Gothic fiction by a wide range of women writers between ca. 1850 and 1930.  This collection seeks to examine how/if the regionalist perspective is small, limited, and stultifying and leads to Gothic moments, or whether the intersection between local and national leads to a clash that is jarring and Gothic in nature.

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Author

Monika Elbert, Rita Bode, Marjorie Pryse, Kate Chopin, Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030555535

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Social Science, Women'S Studies