The Horror of the Familiar. The Female Gothic in the American Century - Raluca Andreescu

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nDin Cuprins: n ◊ American Gothic n ◊ Sources and Influences n ◊ Outline of Criticism of the Female Gothic n ◊ Edith Wharton’s Turn-of-the-century American Gothic n ◊ Engendering the American Gothic n ◊ Shirley Jackson and the Postwar American Gothic n ◊ Joyce Carol Oates and the Postmodern Gothic Quartet n ◊ The Cult of Domesticity Undermined n ◊ Gothic Romancen nThe volume is an expression of the renewed interest in the reassessment of Gothic literature and culture in Western academia, especia...