A Passion for Consumption : The Gothic Novel in America
by
Anna Sonser
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0879728434
ISBN-13
9780879728434
Publisher
The Popular Press
Imprint
The Popular Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 31st, 2001
Print length
162 Pages
Weight
452 grams
Dimensions
24.00 x 15.80 x 1.90 cms
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A perspective on the gothic novel in America, this study engages underlying currents that define American culture as one of consumption through the rereading of canonical texts by Hawthorne, Poe, James and Faulkner, and contemporary gothic novels of Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates and Anne Rice.
Offering a fresh perspective on the gothic novel in America, this study engages the underlying currents that define American culture as one of consumption through the rereading of canonical texts that range from Hawthorne, Poe, James and Faulkner, to contemporary gothic novels of Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates and Anne Rice. By exposing the literary myths of subversion and seduction inherent in these works as disruptive to the flow, circulation and expansion of value, this text positions American literary culture as an extension of commodity economics. Its cogent yet interdisciplinary approach, supported by the work of such theorists as Jacques Lacan and Jean Baudrillard, should make this text useful to anyone interested not only in American literature, but also popular culture and American economic thought.
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