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1014149
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b768519
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| Main Entry
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Edwards, Justin D.,1970-
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| Title & Author
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Gothic passages : : racial ambiguity and the American gothic /\ Justin D. Edwards.
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| Publication Statement
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (xxxiii, 145 pages)
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| ISBN
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1587294206
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: 9781587294204
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0877458243
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9780877458241
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-139) and index.
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| Contents
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Hybrid bodies and gothic narratives in Poe's Pym -- Gothic travels in Melville's Benito Cereno -- Passing and abjection in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom -- The epistemology of the body; or, gothic secrets in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy -- Genetic atavism and the return of the repressed in William Dean Howell's An imperative duty -- The haunted house behind the cedars: Charles W. Chesnutt and the "white negro" -- Epilogue: twentieth-century gothicism and racial ambiguity.
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| Abstract
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This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity. By bringing together these areas of analysis, Justin Edwards considers the following questions. How are the categories of "race" and the rhetoric of racial difference tied to the language of gothicism? What can these discursive ties tell us about a range of social boundaries - gender, sexuality, class, race, etc. - during the nineteenth century? What can the construction and destabilization of these social boundarie.
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Ambiguity in literature.
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American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Gothic revival (Literature)-- United States.
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Horror tales, American-- History and criticism.
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Passing (Identity) in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Racially mixed people in literature.
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Ambiguity in literature.
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American fiction.
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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Horror tales, American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Passing (Identity) in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Racially mixed people in literature.
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Amerikaans.
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Gothic Revival (letterkunde)
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Letterkunde.
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Rassenverhoudingen.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.0872909355
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| LC Classification
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PS374.G68E39 2003eb
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18.06bcl
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18.06.bcl
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