TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davison,Carol
TI  - The Gothic and Death
SN  - 9781526107916
AV  - PR830.T3 .G684 2017 
U1  - 809.3/8729 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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