Haunting Realities by Monika Elbert
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities. Haunting Realities explores the period of American Realism - the end of the nineteenth century - to discover evidence of fertile ground for another age of Gothic proliferation.
Haunting Realities is an interesting and compelling collection that offers a new and fascinating perspective on the influence of the Gothic on Naturalist texts"" - Keith Newlin, author of Hamlin Garland: A Life and editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism
""No book before Haunting Realities has explored the relationship between the Gothic and the modes of Realism and Naturalism, which are apparently antithetical to it. Yet, in the central paradox identified by Elbert and Ryden, Gothic tropes are everywhere in the literature of the post–Civil War period, and reveal much about the age’s crisis of faith in progress—and about our own times as well. This is a wide-ranging and thoughtful collection and will be studied by anyone interested in the Gothic and the literature of the United States."" - Charles L. Crow, author of History of the Gothic: American Gothic and editor of American Gothic: An Anthology, 1787–1916
""No book before Haunting Realities has explored the relationship between the Gothic and the modes of Realism and Naturalism, which are apparently antithetical to it. Yet, in the central paradox identified by Elbert and Ryden, Gothic tropes are everywhere in the literature of the post–Civil War period, and reveal much about the age’s crisis of faith in progress—and about our own times as well. This is a wide-ranging and thoughtful collection and will be studied by anyone interested in the Gothic and the literature of the United States."" - Charles L. Crow, author of History of the Gothic: American Gothic and editor of American Gothic: An Anthology, 1787–1916
Monika Elbert is a professor of English at Montclair State University and coeditor of Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: National and Transatlantic Contexts and Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Wendy Ryden is an associate professor of English at Long Island University Post and coauthor of Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness.
Wendy Ryden is an associate professor of English at Long Island University Post and coauthor of Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780817319373 |
| ISBN 10 | 0817319379 |
| Title | Haunting Realities |
| Author | Monika Elbert |
| Series | Studies In American Literary Realism And Naturalism Series |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Alabama Press |
| Year published | 2017-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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