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• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 07 June 1975

• Publisher : W. W. Norton
• File Size : 53,6 Mb
• Release Date : 07 June 2024

A study of the origins and multiple meanings of Grant Wood's portrait of the pitchfork-holding Iowa farming couple documents how the piece has represented midwestern Puritanism, hard-working endurance, and the

• Publisher : Open Road Media
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• Release Date : 04 October 2016

A New York Times–bestselling author’s “lively” account of a family of famous actors—who became notorious after the assassination of President Lincoln (The New Yorker). Junius Booth and

• Publisher : University of Iowa Press
• File Size : 46,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 June 1998

In America as in Britain, the rise of the Gothic represented the other—the fearful shadows cast upon Enlightenment philosophies of common sense, democratic positivism, and optimistic futurity. Many critics

• Publisher : University of Wales Press
• File Size : 31,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 April 2009

Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American

• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• File Size : 45,8 Mb
• Release Date : 07 June 2024

Challenging the widely held assumption that gothic literature is mainly about fear, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment. Analyzing

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 07 June 2024

From the author of the acclaimed English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema, American Gothic presents an in-depth survey of the early years of the American horror film--ranging from the

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
• File Size : 30,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 2012

Argues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time. Best known for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of

• Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
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• Release Date : 12 November 2019

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under

• Publisher : University of Wales Press
• File Size : 37,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 November 2014

American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the impact British Gothic novels and historical romances had on American art and architecture in the Romantic era.