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Gothic Subjects Gothic Subjects

Автор: Sian Silyn Roberts

Год издания: 0000

Beginning in the 1790s, North American readers developed an appetite for the gothic novel, as imported, reprinted, and pirated editions of British and European romances flooded the market alongside homegrown works. In Gothic Subjects , Siân Silyn Roberts accounts for the sudden and considerable appeal of the gothic during this period by contending that it prepared a culturally diverse American readership to think of itself as part of a transatlantic world through which goods, people, and information could circulate. By putting gothic literature in dialogue with the writings of Locke, Hume, Reid, Smith, Rousseau, and other major figures of the European Enlightenment, Silyn Roberts shows how the early American novel participated in the process of revising and transforming the figure of the modern individual for a fluid, contingent Atlantic population. Exploring works of fiction by Charles Brockden Brown, Leonora Sansay, Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and William Wells Brown, among others, Silyn Roberts argues that the gothic helped post-Revolutionary readers to think of themselves as political subjects. By reading the emergence of a national literary style in terms of its appropriation and reinterpretation of British cultural forms, Gothic Subjects situates itself at the crux of several important issues in American literary history: transatlantic literary relations, the connection between literature and political philosophy, the paradoxes of sovereign power, and the form of the novel. In doing so, Gothic Subjects powerfully rethinks some of our previous assumptions about the cultural work of the American gothic tradition.
Essays and treatises on several subjects. Vol. 1 Essays and treatises on several subjects. Vol. 1

Автор: David Hume

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Essays and treatises on several subjects : Containing essays, moral, political, a. literary, to which are added, dialogues concerning natural religion: In 2 vol. Vol. 1».

Puppets at Large: Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show Puppets at Large: Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show

Автор: Anstey F.

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By-ways in Book-land: Short Essays on Literary Subjects By-ways in Book-land: Short Essays on Literary Subjects

Автор: Adams William Henry Davenport

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Teaching Other Subjects Through English Teaching Other Subjects Through English

Автор: Sheelagh Deller

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CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) has attracted great interest in recent years, especially in Europe but increasingly more widely in the world. This book provides practical, classroom-tested activities that can be used when teaching any subject.

A Gothic Grammar A Gothic Grammar

Автор: Braune Wilhelm

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