A Passion for Consumption: The Gothic Novel in America - Rilegato

Sonser, Anna

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0879728434 ISBN 13: 9780879728434

Casa editrice: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, 2001

Riassunto

Offering a fresh perspective on the gothic novel in America, this vigorous study engages the underlying currents that define American culture as one of consumption. It rereads texts that range from Hawthorne, Poe, James, and Faulkner to the contemporary gothic novels of Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Rice. By exposing the literary motifs of subversion and seduction inherent in these works as disruptive to the flow, circulation, and expansion of value, this book positions American literary culture as an extension of commodity economics. Its cogent yet interdisciplinary approach, supported by the work of such theorists as Jacques Lacan and Jean Baudrillard, makes this text useful to anyone interested in American literature, popular culture, and American economic thought.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0879728434
• ISBN 13: 9780879728434
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 162