Inventing the Gothic Corpse The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel /

Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a thrill device. For centuries, vivid images of the corpse were used to deliver a spiritual or political message; today th...

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Hlavní autor: Shapira, Yael (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Témata:
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Fiction.
British literature.
ISBN:9783319764849
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Obsah:
  • 1. Introduction: The Novel, the Corpse, and the Eighteenth-Century Marketplace
  • 2. Spectacles for Sale: Reframing the Didactic Corpse in Behn and Defoe
  • 3. Fictional Corpses at Mid-Century: Richardson, Fielding, and the Trouble with Hamlet
  • 4. Death, Delicacy and the Novel: The Corpse in Women's Gothic Fiction
  • 5. Shamelessly Gothic: Enjoying the Corpse in The Monk and Zofloya
  • 6. Conclusion: Remains to Be Seen.

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