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6. Gothic Literature in America

The Nobrow Aesthetics of Murder and Madness

Author : Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Published in: When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Chapter 6, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet’s “Gothic Literature in America: The Nobrow Aesthetics of Murder and Madness”, brings up a steady diet of murdered doppelgängers, desecrated corpses, and queer incestuous family secrets, all found in the nobrow thrillethons from two mainstays of the nineteenth-century American literary canon, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. Taught from high schools to the Ivy Leagues, the two out-Goth the Goths in their drive to make money off the Gothic that suspect motherlode of genre fiction that branched out into modern horror, detective stories, science fiction, fantasy, and romance.

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Title: Gothic Literature in America
Author: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Book: When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-59772-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-349-95168-0

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95168-0_6