The gothic and death / Carol Margaret Davison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davison, Carol Margaret, editor.

Series:

International gothic series.

The international gothic series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Death in literature.

Death in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This title provides 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.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 3, 2017).

ISBN:

9781526107923

1526107929

9781526124050

152612405X