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The Gothic and Death.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526107916
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Gothic and DeathDDC classification:
  • 809.3/8729
LOC classification:
  • PR830.T3 .G684 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - the corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity -- Part I Gothic graveyards and afterlives -- Past, present, and future in the Gothic graveyard -- 'On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and William Blake's illustrations to Robert Blair's The Grave (1808) -- Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism -- Part II Gothic revolutions and undead histories -- 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control -- Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives -- Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic -- Part III Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations -- The annihilation of self and species: the ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction -- Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline -- Part IV Global Gothic dead -- A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' -- Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism -- Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir -- Part V Twenty-first-century Gothic and death -- Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people -- Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire -- 'I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud': networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's 'Be Right Back' -- Index.
Summary: An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - the corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity -- Part I Gothic graveyards and afterlives -- Past, present, and future in the Gothic graveyard -- 'On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and William Blake's illustrations to Robert Blair's The Grave (1808) -- Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism -- Part II Gothic revolutions and undead histories -- 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control -- Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives -- Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic -- Part III Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations -- The annihilation of self and species: the ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction -- Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline -- Part IV Global Gothic dead -- A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' -- Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism -- Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir -- Part V Twenty-first-century Gothic and death -- Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people -- Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire -- 'I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud': networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's 'Be Right Back' -- Index.

An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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