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Gray, Sarah B.

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A Life Less Gothic: Gothic Literature, Dark Reform, and the Nineteenth-Century American Periodical Press.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Life Less Gothic: Gothic Literature, Dark Reform, and the Nineteenth-Century American Periodical Press./
Author:	Gray, Sarah B.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	195 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-09A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10262141
ISBN:	9781369760682

A Life Less Gothic: Gothic Literature, Dark Reform, and the Nineteenth-Century American Periodical Press.
Gray, Sarah B.

A Life Less Gothic: Gothic Literature, Dark Reform, and the Nineteenth-Century American Periodical Press. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 195 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Middle Tennessee State University, 2017.

Gothic as a genre is particularly concerned with identifying and exposing anachronisms in social law and behavior. Though most scholars, both Gothic and otherwise, view this as a reactionary position, my study exposes how, especially in the hands of American dark reform writers, Gothic became an active genre, illuminating for readers not what they do fear, but what they should fear. Though many nineteenth-century reformers wrote tracts and sentimental novels in the service of social reform, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and George Lippard recognized that by paralleling nineteenth-century legal and social issues with Gothic literary elements---coverture with captivity, loss of female "purity" with live burial, and insane asylums and civil commitment with the veil---in short stories and serials published in popular periodicals, their calls for social reform would reach a much more vast and varied national audience.

ISBN: 9781369760682Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

A Life Less Gothic: Gothic Literature, Dark Reform, and the Nineteenth-Century American Periodical Press.
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