Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / Andrew Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Andrew, 1964- author.

Series:

Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England).

Manchester Gothic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Death in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1 Touched by the dead: eighteenth-century Gothic poetics ; The elegy: critical overviews; Sensibility; The elegy; Gothic creativity; Death and poetry: seeing the Gothic in the 1790s; Notes; 2 Mourning, memory and melancholy: constructing death constructing death in the 1790s-1820s ; Mourning and memory; Rogers and the importance of memory; Charlotte Smith; Inscriptions of death and the construction of mourning; Constructing the self.

Reanimating the dead: the ethics of memory in The Man of Two LivesNotes; 3 From writing to reading: Poe, Brontë and Eliot; Voicing death: Poe; Life, death and the cosmos; Death and the repeated life; Writing death; Wuthering Heights: knowing death?; Lifting the veil; A science of death; Notes; 4 Gothic death and Dickens: executions, graves and dreams; State killing; Oliver Twist and the Christian uncanny; The culture of the graveyard; Twins and doubles; Dreams, death and the imagination; Drood: decoding death; Notes; 5 Loving the undead: Haggard, Stoker and Wilde.

Haggard: love and death in SheLove and understanding in The Jewel of Seven Stars; Ayesha: The Return of She and dialogues with the dead; Raising the dead: The Lady of the Shroud; Dorian Gray and the imagination; Notes; 6 Decoding the dying: Machen and Stoker; The science of spirits: Henry Drummond; Myers and the subliminal self; Machen's Gothic fragments; Dracula: writers, readers, editors; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Description based on print version.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index.

ISBN:

9781526101082

1526101084

9781526115256

1526115255

9781526101075

1526101076

OCLC:

967322369