Gothic Utterance
"Articulately and elegantly written, the force of this groundbreaking book goes in two directions. It reflects powerfully on the role of utterances, voices, and sounds of all kinds in the Gothic; and it develops a strong argument about the centrality of vocal utterance to the development and establishment of American cultural self-conception." --David Punter, University of Bristol
David Punter, University of Bristol, University of Wales Press
The Gothic has always been interested in strange utterances and unsettling voices: from half-heard ghostly murmurings and the admonitions of the dead, to the terrible cries of the monstrous nonhuman. Gothic Utterance offers the first book-length study of the role such voices play in the Gothic tradition, exploring their prominence and importance in the American literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Wales Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781786837547
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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"Articulately and elegantly written, the force of this groundbreaking book goes in two directions. It reflects powerfully on the role of utterances, voices, and sounds of all kinds in the Gothic; and it develops a strong argument about the centrality of vocal utterance to the development and establishment of American cultural self-conception." --David Punter, University of Bristol
David Punter, University of Bristol, University of Wales Press
"The Gothic is always telling people something they don’t want to hear: our consciences can’t be killed; past sins, our own or our ancestors’, will ultimately be revealed; and we’re generally not who we think we are. In Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech, and Death in the American Gothic, Jimmy Packham demonstrates how frequently, in US fiction of the long nineteenth century, the Gothic literally speaks, through the voices of the dead, the undead, and the dying, as well as the traumatized, the outcast, the nonhuman, and the wilderness. . . . a fresh rereading of a wide swath of nineteenth-century American texts."
American Literary History