Comical Reflections and Delayed Affect in The House of the Seven Gables

JULIE WILHELM is Assistant Professor of English at National University. Focusing on nineteenth-century American literature, she earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include sentimentalist humor, affect, and labor in American literature, gender studies, and the Gothic. She has recently published essays on nineteenth-century sentimentalist humor in Studies in American Humor and Legacy. She is also the co-author of an essay on the Gothic bear forthcoming in Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siècle to the Millennium.