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Haunted Homes, Domestic Architecture, and Spectral Possession in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic Literature (1840s - 1890s) /

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正題名/作者:	Haunted Homes, Domestic Architecture, and Spectral Possession in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic Literature (1840s - 1890s) // Lawrence Lorraine Mullen.
作者:	Mullen, Lawrence Lorraine,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (162 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-03A.
標題:	American literature. -
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Haunted Homes, Domestic Architecture, and Spectral Possession in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic Literature (1840s - 1890s) /
Mullen, Lawrence Lorraine,

Haunted Homes, Domestic Architecture, and Spectral Possession in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic Literature (1840s - 1890s) /Lawrence Lorraine Mullen. - 1 electronic resource (162 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.

This dissertation argues that the role of archival material, such as architectural blueprints and American house pattern books, should be incorporated into literary discourses on nineteenth century American Gothic literature. This archival material serves both as literature itself and as historical-material context on the 1840s through the 1890s, because they allow for an understanding of how structure as built by social terms, therefore better defining how space-domestic space-is cultivated and maintained. In the 1830s and 1840s, architectural blueprints and craft books, intended for craftsmen and builders, began to transition into American house pattern books, whose intended audience was the homeowner, rather than the builder. My investment in reading architecture alongside literary form enables us to see specifically where 'domestic' culture and 'domesticity' were happening tangibly in the home, which begs us to consider broader social interactions around gender, race, and class that previously have been theoretical in nature and less tangible. I claim that rising anxieties of home-ownership and precariousness of being a tenant, for example, cane be read alongside narratives of and by enslaved individuals, to further interrogate who has the capacity to haunt. My research incorporates popular texts, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birth-Mark", and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, alongside works that have received less scholarly attention, such as E. Levi Brown's "At the Hermitage", in order to highlight the fluidity of gender, sexuality, class, and race that I find to be intrinsic not just to an American Gothic, but a nineteenth century American Gothic.I argue that Gothic literature is a historical framework, because to understand American history and national (and regional) conversations around race, gender, nationhood, and more, one must read Gothic narratives to fully understand the perspective of oppressed or minority groups rather than just sentimental literature. While art historians and nineteenth-century historians are perhaps not new to American house pattern books, utilizing these texts opens up new possibilities in applying a historicist lens to Gothic literature-defining what is mainstream domesticity, and who has access to it, and what social anxieties around domesticity emerged. In order to grapple with haunting narratives within nineteenth-century American Gothic fiction in a textual and historical way, my dissertation proposes a division of domestic space and structure in residential homes. While the visual, in this dissertation, is emblematic of dominant social and cultural ideologies, the text provides new ways to interrogate how these values were built into the foundations of American's homes; Gothic literature here haunts the visual. The Gothic serves as a reconfiguration of a theoretical understanding structure and space, playing with notions of access to domesticity and domestic spaces, highlighting racial difference and the precarity of whiteness as barrier. In domestic haunting narratives, spaces such as the kitchen, porch, or veranda are the sites of these Gothic tensions. Looking heavily to archival research, particularly in locating architectural blueprints and photographs of residential buildings' exterior and interiors, I aim to think of structure as it is constructed and subsequently inhabited.I argue that Gothic literature is a historical framework, because to understand American history and national (and regional) conversations around race, gender, nationhood, and more, one must read Gothic narratives to fully understand the perspective of oppressed or minority groups rather than just the mainstream discourse. While art historians and nineteenth-century historians are perhaps not new to American house pattern books, utilizing these texts opens up new possibilities in applying a historicist lens to Gothic literature-defining what is mainstream domesticity, and who has access to it, and what social anxieties around domesticity emerged. In order to grapple with haunting narratives within nineteenth-century American Gothic fiction in a textual and historical way, my dissertation proposes a division of domestic space and structure in residential homes. The Gothic serves as a reconfiguration of a theoretical understanding structure and space, playing with notions of access to domesticity and domestic spaces, highlighting racial difference and the precarity of whiteness as barrier. In domestic haunting narratives, spaces such as the kitchen, porch, or veranda are the sites of these Gothic scenes. Looking heavily to archival research, particularly in locating architectural blueprints and photographs of residential buildings' exterior and interiors, I aim to think of structure as it is constructed and subsequently inhabited.

English

ISBN: 9798384085942Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Gothic literature

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