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050 00 $aPS374.G68$bP47 2003
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100 1 $aPepetone, Gregory G.,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001046350
245 10 $aGothic perspectives on the American experience /$cGregory G. Pepetone.
260 $aNew York :$bP. Lang,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $ax, 197 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-187) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction: Preliminary Issues -- $g2.$tNarratives of Subversion and Conspiracy -- $g3.$tNineteenth-Century Political Gothic -- $g4.$tPulp Culture and American Politics -- $g5.$tChronicles of Redemption.
520 1 $a"From the founding of the United States to the present day, America's conception of itself as a functional democracy has been clouded by a dark suspicion of subversion, conspiracy, and failure. Gothic Perspectives on the American Experience explores this dark side of America's past, from the era of Thomas Jefferson and Charles Brockden Brown to that of John F. Kennedy and Oliver Stone.
520 8 $aDrawing upon insights garnered from history, literature, pulp fiction, and film, this book probes unresolved divisions between adherents of the authentic American dream - which is based on faith in civilized dialogue within an open political process - and an alternative conception of America based in commercialism, covert politics, and faith in the effectiveness of armed might. Although this alternative vision found its most virulent expression in the fascist ideology of Nazi Germany, the philosophical and psychological precedents of modern fascism were latent in the philistinism, nationalism, and militarism of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American history. According to some, these latent tendencies eventually culminated in a Cold War conflict between John F. Kennedy and the military-industrial-intelligence complex, sometimes referred to as the shadow government.
520 8 $aAccording to the Gothic imagination, that conflict cost John F. Kennedy his life. This book examines the tensions between democratic idealism and covert fascism in the American experience, the Gothic dilemmas those tensions have provoked, and the contributions made by some of America's preeminent authors, politicians, historians, and filmmakers toward reforming an increasingly dystopian society along the utopian lines envisioned by the Founding Fathers."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004351
650 0 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105346
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007417
650 0 $aSubversive activities$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010112560
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140482
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139934
650 0 $aConspiracies$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98004035
852 00 $bglx$hPS374.G68$iP47 2003