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The Phantom and the Abyss

其他書名	The Gothic Fiction in America and Aesthetics of the Sublime, 1798-1856
出版	P. Lang, 1999
主題	Fiction / HorrorLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Gothic & RomancePhilosophy / Aesthetics
ISBN	36313532199783631353219
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9E7xcL7kjZcC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The book focuses on the evolution of the Gothic fiction in America from Charles Brockden Brown to Herman Melville in the context of the aesthetics of the sublime. Starting with a reading of Brown's Gothic romances - Wieland and Edgar Huntly - and concluding with an analysis of Melville's Pierre, the author demonstrates the relevance of the Kantian concept of the sublime for the nineteenth-century American literature of horror. An inspiration to present the development of the American Gothic in the period under scrutiny as a coherent process has been also the psychoanalytic theory of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. Moreover, the study contains an attempt to place R.H. Dana, Sr and W. Allston in the American literary canon.