评议人：姜红  北京外国语大学外国文学研究所教授

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Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic: 

A Study in Form, History, and Culture

Wanlin Li 

As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of the American gothic, “global ambiguity,” and examines the important cultural work it performs in the nineteenth-century history of the genre. The author defines “global ambiguity” as occurring in texts whose internal evidence supports equally plausible and yet mutually exclusive interpretations. Combining insights from narrative theory and cultural studies, she investigates the narrative origin of global ambiguity and the ways in which it produces culturally meaningful readings. Canonical works and obscure ones from American gothic authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry James are reexamined. This study reveals that the nineteenth-century American gothicists developed the gothic into an aesthetically sophisticated mode that engaged intensely with the pressing problems of American society, including moral citizenship, slavery, and the social status of women, and reimagined social realities in politically constructive manners.

Literary scholars, students, and general readers interested in gothic literature, American literature, or narrative theory will find this book informative and inspiring.

北京大学英语系长聘副教授、研究员，美国俄亥俄州立大学英语系博士，主要研究方向为19世纪美国文学、哥特文学、叙事学、电影改编等。出版英文专著Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic: A Study in Form, History, and Culture（London and New York: Routledge, 2021），并在Narrative（A&HCI）、Style（A&HCI）、Journal of Narrative Theory（A&HCI）、《外国文学评论》、《外国文学研究》、《外国文学》、《国外文学》等国内外知名期刊上发表文章十余篇，主持国家社科基金青年项目“19世纪美国哥特文学与杂志文学市场研究”。

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