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            <mods:title>Gothic Enlightenment: American Fiction and the Limits of Sympathy, 1789-1850</mods:title>
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            <mods:namePart>Silyn Roberts, Sian</mods:namePart>
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            <mods:copyrightDate encoding="w3cdtf" keyDate="yes">2008</mods:copyrightDate>
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            <mods:extent>vi, 183 p.</mods:extent>
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          <mods:note>Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Brown University (2009)</mods:note>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Armstrong, Nancy</mods:namePart>
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              <mods:roleTerm type="text">director</mods:roleTerm>
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            <mods:namePart>Gould, Philip</mods:namePart>
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            <mods:namePart>Tennenhouse, Leonard</mods:namePart>
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            <mods:namePart>Brown University. English</mods:namePart>
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          <mods:abstract>This dissertation argues that gothic conventions in antebellum fiction revise Enlightenment categories of the individual, sympathy, and the social contract for a cultural
      environment made of heterogeneous, mutable, and often migratory groups. I read the fiction of Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, and Nathaniel Hawthorne to show how
      their works challenge the normativity and naturalness of these Enlightenment models by opening individuals to their environment and subjecting them to collective sources of emotion and
      information. Contrary to prevailing critical accounts that read the gothic as the expression of some form of national guilt, I account for the gothic's substantial appeal during the antebellum
      period by arguing that it prepared a culturally diverse readership to think of itself as very much part of a transatlantic world of exchange.</mods:abstract>
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            <mods:topic>gothic</mods:topic>
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          <mods:subject authority="local">
            <mods:topic>John Locke</mods:topic>
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            <mods:topic>Scottish Enlightenment</mods:topic>
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            <mods:topic>Transatlantic</mods:topic>
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          <mods:subject authority="FAST" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1071476"><mods:topic>Population</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="FAST" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1140836"><mods:topic>Sympathy</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="FAST" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/40818"><mods:name><mods:namePart>Locke, John</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="date">1632-1704</mods:namePart></mods:name></mods:subject><mods:recordInfo>
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            <mods:recordCreationDate encoding="iso8601">20091218</mods:recordCreationDate>
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        <mods:language><mods:languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</mods:languageTerm><mods:languageTerm type="text">English</mods:languageTerm></mods:language><mods:identifier type="doi">10.7301/Z0WS8RHX</mods:identifier><mods:accessCondition type="rights statement" xlink:href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</mods:accessCondition><mods:accessCondition type="restriction on access">Collection is open for research.</mods:accessCondition><mods:typeOfResource authority="primo">dissertations</mods:typeOfResource></mods:mods>