TY  - BOOK
AU  - Packham,Jimmy
TI  - Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech and Death in the American Gothic
T2  - Gothic Literary Studies
SN  - 9781786837561
AV  - PS374.G68 P335 2021 
U1  - 813.0872909 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - La Vergne
PB  - Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
KW  - American literature-1783-1850-History and criticism
KW  - American literature-19th century-History and criticism
KW  - Dead in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A note on referencing -- Introduction: American Biloquism -- Part I: Gothic Utterance and Selfhood -- 1 Deadly Locution and Delphic Shrieks: Haunted Significance and the Self -- 2 Cries and Whispers: Spectral Voice, Community and Gothic Consciousness -- Part II: Voices, Soundscapes, Histories -- 3 Howls and Echoes: Frontier Gothic and the Voice of the Wilderness -- 4 (Dis)embodied Utterance and the Peripatetic Voice: Hearing the Haunted Plantation -- 5 Squawking Soldiers and the Babbling Corpse: War-torn Words and the Civil War Gothic -- Conclusion: Quoth the Gothic -- Notes -- Bibliography
N2  - Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century, discussing pressing questions of national identity and subjecthood, and emphasising the ethical value of listening to unsettling or distressing voices
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