Gothic Literary Studies #: The Haunted States of America

Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American Fiction

Gothic Literary Studies #: The Haunted States of America
James Morgart
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15 May 2022 UK
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9781786838766
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A study of regional anxiety in postwar Gothic fiction, beyond the red scare. The Haunted States of America reveals how the red scare exploited regional narrative traditions as it spread across the national imagination. In particular, Cold War anxieties found a welcome home in regional forms of Gothic fiction that already mediated anxieties about threats to local power structures: white supremacy, patriarchy, and colonialism, as well as capitalism. James Morgart argues that postwar Gothic fiction in the United States should be understood through these local anxieties and narratives first, before reading for national resonances. Through a series of localized readings-in the South, the Midwest, New England, New York, and California-Morgart reveals more than a century of regionalized angst behind the twentieth-century American Gothic.

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James Morgart is Assistant Professor of English at West Virginia University, Keyser, where he teaches English composition and literature classes while also researching American Gothic literature and film.
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ISBN-13: 9781786838766
Published: 15 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 256

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