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The Shape of Fear : Horror and the Fin de Siècle Culture of Decadence /

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it. In response, the 1890s saw the publication of a series of remarkable literary works...

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Autor principal: Navarette, Susan J., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1; 1 Rictus Invictus; 2 Walter de la Mare's A: B: 0.: The Text for the Context; 3 Unsealing Sense in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw; 4 Articulating the Dead: Vernon Lee, Decadence, and The Doll -- Part 2; 5 The Word Made flesh: Protoplasmic Predications in Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan -- 6 The Anatomy of failure: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z 
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