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Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction: Haunted by the Dark
Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction: Haunted by the Dark
Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction: Haunted by the Dark
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The twelve Gothic tales of this collection span the nineteenth-century South and are from some of the most famous writers of the age, such as Edgar Allan Poe, to more recently rediscovered and now celebrated writers such as Kate Chopin and Charles Chesnutt, to the completely and unfairly obscure E. Levi Brown.  Companion readings—some themselves quite chilling—are by celebrated writers and well-known historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson, Charles Brockden Brown, Jacques Dessalines, and W. E. B DuBois.  These readings place the fiction in the context of the South and the Caribbean: the revolution in Haiti, Nat Turner’s rebellion, the realities of slavery and the myths spun by its apologists, the aftermath of the Civil War, and the brutalities of Jim Crow laws.

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PublisherAnthem Press
Release dateAug 17, 2020
ISBN9781785273896
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