Gothic Renaissance : a reassessment / Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bronfen, Elisabeth, editor.

Neumeier, Beate, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

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

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance.

Contents:

Introduction - Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier. Part I: Shakesperean hauntings

1.Yorick's skull - John Drakakis

2. Beyond reason: Hamlet and early modern stage ghosts - Catherine Belsey

3. 'What do I fear? myself?': nightmares, conscience and the 'gothic' self in Richard III - Per Sivefors

4. Queen Margaret's haunting revenge: the gothic legacy of Shakespeare's War of the Roses - Elisabeth Bronfen Part II: Renaissance theatre

Vision and desire: fantastic Renaissance spectacles - Beate Neumeier

6. From grotesque to gothic: Ben Jonson's Masque of Queenes - Lynn Meskill. Part III: Gothic textuality in the early modern period

7. Exhumations: scopophobia in Renaissance texts - Duncan Salkeld

8. Bright hair and brittle bones. Gothic affinities in metaphysical poetry - Ulrike Zimmermann

9. Vampirism in the bower of bliss - Garrett Sullivan

10. Ghostly authorities and the British popular press - Andrea Brady <BR>Part IV: Persistence of the gothic

11. Monstrous to our human reason. Minding the gap In The Winter's Tale - Richard Wilson

12. Shakespeare, Ossian and the problem of 'scottish gothic' - Dale Townshend

13. The rage of Caliban. Dorian Gray and the gothic body - Andreas Höfele

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2014).

ISBN:

1-78170-689-1