Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 179-1861

Contents

c o n t e n t s Introduction: The Gothic Enlightenment 1 Chapter 1. The American Transformation of the British Individual 28 Chapter 2. Captivity, Incorporation, and the Politics of Going Native 59 Chapter 3. A Mind for the Gothic: Common Sense and the Problem of Local Culture 86 Chapter 4. Population and the Limits of Civil Society in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter 115 Chapter 5. Slavery and Gothic Form: Writing Race as the Bio-Novel 140 Epilogue 165 Notes 173 Bibliography 211 Index 231 Acknowledgments 237 ...