Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic
As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of the American gothic, "global ambiguity," and examines the important cultural work it performs in the nineteenth-century history of the genre.
The author defines "global ambiguity" as occurring in texts whose internal evidence supports equally plausi...
As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of the American gothic, "global ambiguity," and examines the important cultural work it performs in the nineteenth-century history of the genre.
The author defines "global ambiguity" as occurring in texts whose internal evidence supports equally plausi...
