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Haunting Realities

Naturalist Gothic and American Realism

by Monika Elbert, Wendy Ryden, Stephen Arch, David Greven, Donna M. Campbell, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, Steve Marsden0, Christine A. Wooley1, Dennis Berthold2, Alicia Mischa Renfroe3, Charlotte L. Quinney4, Gary Totten5, Dara Downey6, Daniel Mrozowski7, Kenneth K. Brandt8, Patricia Luedecke9, Lisa A. Long0 ...

Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualitiesFollowing the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities ... Read more

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An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualitiesFollowing the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities
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Transnational Gothic

Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century

by Monika Elbert ...

Offering a variety of critical approaches to late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, this collection provides a transnational view of the emergence and flowering of the Gothic. The essays expand on now well-known approaches to the Gothic (such as those that concentrate exclusively on race, gender, or nation) by focusing on international issues: religious traditions, social ... Read more

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Offering a variety of critical approaches to late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, this collection provides a transnational view of the emergence and flowering of the Gothic. The essays expand on now well-known approaches to the Gothic (such as those that concentrate exclusively on race, gender, or nation) by focusing on international issues: religious traditions, social
... Read more
Our Sisters' Keepers

Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women

by Sarah E. Chinn, Mary Templin, Whitney A. Womack, Terry D. Novak, James Salazar, Karen Tracey, Lori Merish, Monika Elbert ...

Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty reliefAmerican culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of ... Read more

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Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty reliefAmerican culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of
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Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

by Helen R. Deese, Eric Gardner, Laura Dassow Walls, Sarah Ann Wider, Susan M. Stone, Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Sterling Delano, Katherine Adams, Noelle Baker, Dorri Beam, Mary De Jong, Monika Elbert, Ivonne Garcia, Daniel Malachuk, Jeffrey A. Steele, Gary Williams ...

Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of ... Read more

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Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries

Literary and Intellectual Contexts

by Cynthia J. Davis, Denise D. Knight, Gary Scharnhorst, Jennifer S. Tuttle, Monika Elbert, Lawrence J Oliver, Charlotte Rich, Judith A Allen, Melody Graulich0, Joanne B. Karpinski1, Janice J. Kirkland2, Lisa A. Long3, Mary M. Moynihan4 ...

Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
Considers Gilman’s place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her eraBy placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman believed and preached that no life is ever led in isolation; indeed, ... Read more

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Considers Gilman’s place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her eraBy placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman believed and preached that no life is ever led in isolation; indeed,
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Separate Spheres No More

Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930

by Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, Katharine Rodier, Karen S. Nulton, Karen E. Waldron, Dawn Keetley, Lisette Nadine Gibson, Debra Bernardi, Jennifer Costello Brezina, Mary Louise Kete, Marianne Noble, Denise D. Knight0, Monika Elbert2, Ms. Darby Lewes3, Ms. Frederick Newberry4 ...

Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literatureAlthough they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of ... Read more

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Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literatureAlthough they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of
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Dark Nature

Anti-Pastoral Essays in American Literature and Culture

by Gina Claywell, Jesse Curran, Sarah Daw, Monika M. Elbert, Isabel Galleymore, Mark Henderson, Joseph Heumann, Elizabeth Kubek, Matthew Masucci, T. Mera Moore Lafferty, Rachel Paparone, Dana Prodoehl, Jennifer Schell, Anette Vandsoe, Frederico Bellini, David LaRocca, Robin Murray ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
In The Ecological Thought, eco-philosopher Timothy Morton has argued for the inclusion of “dark ecology” in our thinking about nature. Dark ecology, he argues, puts hesitation, uncertainty, irony, and thoughtfulness back into ecological thinking.” The ecological thought, he says, should include “negativity and irony, ugliness and horror.” Focusing on this concept of “dark ecology” and its ... Read more

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In The Ecological Thought, eco-philosopher Timothy Morton has argued for the inclusion of “dark ecology” in our thinking about nature. Dark ecology, he argues, puts hesitation, uncertainty, irony, and thoughtfulness back into ecological thinking.” The ecological thought, he says, should include “negativity and irony, ugliness and horror.” Focusing on this concept of “dark ecology” and its
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Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

Narratives of Consumption, 1700D1900

by Sumangala Bhattacharya, James Gregory, Ron Broglio, Helen Day, Christine Rinne, Andy Williams, Helen Pike Bauer, Adele Wessell, Tamara Ketabgian, Tara Moore, Monika Elbert, Alice Jenkins, Jim Chevallier, J.D Mininger, Jason Peck, Ilias Chrissochoidis, Guilan Siassi, Jared F. Green ...

Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from the eighteenth century onwards. Individual essays provide an excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology, philosophy, history, and art history, cultural and postcolonial studies as well ... Read more

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Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from the eighteenth century onwards. Individual essays provide an excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology, philosophy, history, and art history, cultural and postcolonial studies as well
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Gothic Melville

Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Monika Elbert ...

Series series Gothic Literary Studies
In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse, Herman Melville took the critics to task for missing the darkness as the heart of Hawthorne’s writing – a blackness ‘ten times black’, as Melville put it, that fascinated him. Ironically, Melville has been subject to the same treatment by critics who have in large measure steered clear of Melville’s own darkness. The ... Read more

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In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse, Herman Melville took the critics to task for missing the darkness as the heart of Hawthorne’s writing – a blackness ‘ten times black’, as Melville put it, that fascinated him. Ironically, Melville has been subject to the same treatment by critics who have in large measure steered clear of Melville’s own darkness. The
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American Women's Regionalist Fiction

Mapping the Gothic

Edited by Monika Elbert, Rita Bode ...

Series series Palgrave Gothic
American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic seeks to redress the monolithic vision of American Gothic by analyzing the various sectional or regional attempts to Gothicize what is most claustrophobic or peculiar about local history. Since women writers were often relegated to inferior status, it is especially compelling to look at women from the Gothic perspective. The regionalist ... Read more

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American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic seeks to redress the monolithic vision of American Gothic by analyzing the various sectional or regional attempts to Gothicize what is most claustrophobic or peculiar about local history. Since women writers were often relegated to inferior status, it is especially compelling to look at women from the Gothic perspective. The regionalist
... Read more
American Gothic Short Stories

by Terri Bruce, Ramsey Campbell, Maxx Fidalgo, Joshua Hiles, Russell James, Clayton Kroh, Sean Logan, Madison McSweeney, Lynette Mejía, Joe Nazare, Wendy Nikel, Christi Nogle, Lina Rather, M. Regan, Rebecca Ring, Mike Robinson, Lucy A. Snyder, Valerie B. Williams, Nemma Wollenfang ...

Series series Gothic Fantasy
With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this next anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series.As with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce, ... Read more

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With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this next anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series.As with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce,
... Read more
Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing

Edited by Susanne Schmid, Monika Elbert ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory. Focusing on the social and imaginary space of the hotel in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and travel accounts, the essays shed new light on nineteenth-century notions of travel writing. Analyzing the liminal space of the ... Read more

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This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory. Focusing on the social and imaginary space of the hotel in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and travel accounts, the essays shed new light on nineteenth-century notions of travel writing. Analyzing the liminal space of the
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries

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