The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Gothic Literary Studies
ISBN-10
1783161922
ISBN-13
9781783161928
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2015
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
460 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 22.20 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersCultural studies
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The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture explores the ways in which supposedly horrible fictions are understood by their audiences as naughtily delightful, tracing this reading tradition through American narrative culture.
Writers on gothic literature and art traditionally assume the genre explores genuine historical crises and traumasyet this does not account for the fact that the gothic is often a source of wicked delight as much as horror, causing audiences to laugh as often as they shriek. The Gothic and Carnivalesque in American Culture offers a different account of the gothic, one that focuses on the carnivalesque in American gothic works from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. Along the way, the author discusses festivals in the works of Poe, Hawthorne and Irving; the celebrations of wickedness on display in the work of Weird Tales and H.P. Lovecraft; and the exhilarating, often exuberant horrors offered up by more recent authors such as Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, and in gothic-inspired television and pop culture, such as Vampirella and American Gothic.
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