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Gothic Utterance : Voice, Speech and Death in the American Gothic.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gothic Literary StudiesPublisher: La Vergne : Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (174 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786837561
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gothic UtteranceDDC classification:
  • 813.0872909
LOC classification:
  • PS374.G68 P335 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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