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- catalog abstract ""Offering a fresh perspective on the gothic novel in America, this study engages the underlying currents that define American culture as one of consumption through the rereading of canonical 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, A Passion for Consumption positions American literary culture as an extension of commodity economics."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12188247.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Offering a fresh perspective on the gothic novel in America, this study engages the underlying currents that define American culture as one of consumption through the rereading of canonical 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, A Passion for Consumption positions American literary culture as an extension of commodity economics."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Subversion -- The Ghost in the Machine: Beloved and The Scarlet Letter -- The Monster and the Mother: Frankenstein and Beloved -- Stories That Won't Tell: The Witching Hour, Frankenstein, and "The Turn of the Screw" -- The America of My Imagination: Bellefleur and Absalom, Absalom! -- Seduction -- Desexed America: The Dynamics of Seduction in The Scarlet Letter and "The Turn of the Screw" -- Vampire Voyeur: Specular Seduction in Interview with the Vampire and "The Jolly Corner" -- Wicked Liaison(s): Bellefleur, Beloved, Poe, and the Vampire/Succubus -- The Culture of Consumption -- The Lust for Acquisitions: Bellefleur, The House of the Seven Gables, and New World Gothic Horror -- Appropriation and Value in Beloved and "Benito Cereno" -- Consuming Passions in The Vampire Lestat.".
- catalog extent "162 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Passion for consumption.".
- catalog identifier "0879728434".
- catalog identifier "0879728442 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Passion for consumption.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press,".
- catalog relation "Passion for consumption.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.087209355 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Consumption (Economics) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Economics and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Gothic revival (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "Horror tales, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS374.G68 S66 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Subversion -- The Ghost in the Machine: Beloved and The Scarlet Letter -- The Monster and the Mother: Frankenstein and Beloved -- Stories That Won't Tell: The Witching Hour, Frankenstein, and "The Turn of the Screw" -- The America of My Imagination: Bellefleur and Absalom, Absalom! -- Seduction -- Desexed America: The Dynamics of Seduction in The Scarlet Letter and "The Turn of the Screw" -- Vampire Voyeur: Specular Seduction in Interview with the Vampire and "The Jolly Corner" -- Wicked Liaison(s): Bellefleur, Beloved, Poe, and the Vampire/Succubus -- The Culture of Consumption -- The Lust for Acquisitions: Bellefleur, The House of the Seven Gables, and New World Gothic Horror -- Appropriation and Value in Beloved and "Benito Cereno" -- Consuming Passions in The Vampire Lestat.".
- catalog title "A passion for consumption : the gothic novel in America / Anna Sonser.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".