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6. Gothic Literature in America

The Nobrow Aesthetics of Murder and Madness

verfasst von : Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Erschienen in: When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

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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Fußnoten
1
Quoted in Peeples, 2004, p. 64.
 
2
See Swirski, 2005, 2016a.
 
3
See McKeon, 1987.
 
4
Whalen, 1999, p. 64.
 
5
Halttunen, 1998, pp. 2–6.
 
6
Whalen, 1999, p. 67.
 
7
Muller and Richardson, 1987.
 
8
See Soltysik, 2007, pp. 137–138; following quote; Huxley, 1967, p. 32.
 
9
Poe, 1984a, p. 15.
 
10
Poe, 1984a, p. 16.
 
11
Elmer, 1995.
 
12
Elmer, 1995, p. 175.
 
13
Poe, 1984b, p. 265; following quote ibid.
 
14
Whalen, 1999, pp. 68–69.
 
15
Poe, 1984b, p. 233.
 
16
Poe to White (30 April 1835), in Ostrom, 1948, pp. 57–58.
 
17
Soltysik Monnet, 2010, pp. 38–45.
 
18
Post, 2005, p. 108.
 
19
New York Mirror, 13 April 1849, quoted in Post, 2005, p. 130.
 
20
Review of Melville’s Moby-Dick, John Bull, 25 October 1851, quoted in Post, 2005, p. 109
 
21
Hedges, 2014.
 
22
Milder, 2005, p. 31
 
23
In Howard and Parker, 1971, p. 366; following quote ibid., p. 367.
 
24
Melville, 1852/1971, p. 141.
 
25
Melville, 1852/1971, p. 79.
 
26
Edelman, 1994, p. 202.
 
27
Sedgwick, 1990, p. 41; following quote Creech, 1993, p. 58.
 
28
Melville, 1852/1971, p. 216.
 
29
Creech, 1993, pp. 55–59.
 
30
Sedgwick, 1990, p. 3.
 
31
See Lauter, 2001, chapter 10.
 
32
James, 1999, p. 178 and 125.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Gothic Literature in America
verfasst von
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95168-0_6