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"The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries. It investigates how the multifarious strands of the Gothic and the concepts of death, dying, mourning and memorialisation ('the Death Question') - have inte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davison, Carol Margaret (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:International Gothic (Manchester, England)
Temas:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Death in motion pictures.
Mort dans la littérature.
Mort au cinéma.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Gothic graveyards and afterlives
  • 1. Past, present, and future in the Gothic graveyard / Serena Trowbridge
  • 2. 'On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and William Blake's illustrations to Robert Blair's The Grave (1808) / Sibylle Erle
  • 3. Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism / Bruce Wyse
  • pt. II. Gothic revolutions and undead histories
  • 4. 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control / Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström
  • 5. Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives / Yael Maurer
  • 6. Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic / Adam White
  • pt. III. Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations
  • 7. The annihilation of self and species: the ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne / Jennifer Schell
  • 8. Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction / John Cameron Hartley
  • 9. Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline / Matthew Pangborn
  • pt. IV. Global Gothic dead
  • 10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' / Christina Petraglia
  • 11. Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism / Katherine Bowers
  • 12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir / Vijay Mishra
  • pt. V. Twenty-first-century Gothic and death
  • 13. Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people / Michelle J. Smith
  • 14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire / Carol Margaret Davison
  • 15. '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' / Neal Kirk.

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