A Passion for Consumption: The Gothic Novel in AmericaPopular Press, 2001 - 162 páginas 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. |
Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Witching Hour Frankenstein | 38 |
Bellefleur and Absalom | 53 |
SEDUCTION | 70 |
Specular Seduction in Interview with | 83 |
Bellefleur Beloved Poe and | 96 |
THE CULTURE OF CONSUMPTION | 111 |
Appropriation and Value in Beloved and Benito Cereno | 123 |
Consuming Passions in The Vampire Lestat | 136 |
CONCLUSION | 145 |
| 159 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Absalom allows American American gothic appears attempt authority baby Baudrillard becomes begins Bellefleur Beloved canonical child codes commodification commodity concept Consequently construct consumed consumption context critics cultural daughter dead death defined desire dominant economic effect exchange eyes father female fiction figure finds forces gender genre gives gothic governess hands horror human identity ideological interpretation ironically language leaves Lestat linked literally literary lives looked Louis marks material Mayfair meaning mirror monster Morrison's mother murder narrative narrator nature novel Oates Oates's objects once Paul play production refers reflected relations represented reveals Rice Rice's role Scarlet Letter seduction serves Sethe Sethe's sexual signs Similarly slavery slaves social society story subjectivity subversive suggest symbolic things tion traditional transformed Turn vampire voice Witching woman women writing York young