Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic : A Study in Form, History, and Culture (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: A Cultural Narratological Perspective on Global Ambiguity in the American Gothic 2. The Politics of Reading: Ambiguity, Yellow Fever, and Citizenship Education in Charles B. Brown’s Arthur Mervyn 3. Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Aesthetics and Politics: Ambiguity and Rhetorical Sublimity in "Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" 4. Navigating the Literary Marketplace: Allegory, Gothicism, and Ambiguity in Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappaccini’s Daughter" 5. Return of the Repressed: Racial and Gender Politics in the Uncanny Gothic of Herman Melville and Louisa May Alcott 6. Ambiguity and Gender Politics of Authorship in Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and "The Ghostly Rental"