Anne DeLong

Classic Horror

A Historical Exploration of Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

A valuable resource for readers exploring the classic horror genre, this book presents primary source documents alongside analysis in an examination of the social, political, and economic factors reflected in 19th century Gothic literature. The nineteenth century was a time of social, cultural, and economic change; revolutionary scientific developments; and enduring imaginative works. This book explores the classic horror genre of Gothic literature in its historical and social contexts. It contains chapters on four major works of classic horror, with each chapter providing a mix of background information, primary source historical documents, and analysis that will appeal as much to high school and college students as to lovers of literature and the Victorian era. Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is contextualized through documents pertaining to British imperialism, Antarctic Exploration, and the burgeoning environmentalist movement. Shelley's Frankenstein is explored through sections on galvanism, electricity, grave robbing, and the vitalist debate. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is read through explanations of nineteenth-century drug use and addiction and early theories of psychology and criminology. Stoker's Dracula is studied with reference to such topics as mesmerism, clairvoyance, alienism, medical ethics, xenophobia, and Victorian pseudoscience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781440858420
• ISBN-10: 144085842X
• Artikelnr.: 51510443

Autorenporträt

Anne DeLong, PhD, is associate professor of English at Kutztown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction and Background
Chronology
1 "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1798)
Synopsis
Historical Background
About Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Why We Read This Work
Historical Explorations of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
" Documenting "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
" British Imperialism and Arctic Exploration
Document: Captain George Shelvocke
A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea (1726)
Document: W. Ellis
An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke
in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery
during the Years 1776
1777
1778
1789
and 1780 (1783)
Document: Captain James Cook
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1793)
Document: Robert Southey
"The Sailor
Who Had Served in the Slave Trade" (1798)
Morality and Environmentalism
Document: Jeremy Bentham
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
Document: William Bartram
Travels through North & South Carolina
Georgia
East & West Florida
the Cherokee Country
the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges
or Creek Confederacy
and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions
Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians (1791)
Document: Joseph Ritson
An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food: As a Moral Duty (1802)
Document: Ernst Haeckel
Principles of General Morphology of Organisms (1866)
Document: Ernst Haeckel
"Proofs of the Truth of the Theory of Descent
" in The History of Creation: Or
The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes
Volume II (1887)
Suggested Readings
2 Frankenstein (Mary Shelley
1818)
Synopsis
Historical Background
About Mary Shelley
Why We Read This Work
Historical Explorations of Frankenstein
Documenting Frankenstein
Lightning Strikes: Harnessing the Power
Document: Benjamin Franklin
Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1752)
Document: Joseph Priestley
The History and Present State of Electricity (1767)
Document: Richard Fowler
Experiments and Observations Relative to the Influence Lately Discovered by M. Galvani
and Commonly Called Animal Electricity (1793)
Stolen Corpses: Body Snatchers
Grave Robbers
and Resurrection Men
Document: John Aldini
An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism; with a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed before the Commissioners of the French National Institute and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London; to Which Is Added
an Appendix
Containing the Author's Experiments on the Body of a Malefactor Executed at Newgate (1803)
Document: James Blake Bailey
The Diary of a Resurrectionist
1811-1812
to Which Was Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy Act (1896)
The Spark of Life: The Vitalist Debate
Document: John Abernethy
An Enquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life (1814)
Document: William Lawrence
Lectures on Physiology
Zoology
and the Natural History of Man (1819)
Suggested Readings
3 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson
1886)
Synopsis
Historical Background
About Robert Louis Stevenson
Why We Read This Work
Historical Explorations of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Documenting The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Dark Double Within: Psychology
Dreams
and the Doppelgänger
Document: James Cowles Prichard
A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind (1837)
Document: Henry Maudsley
The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind (1872)
Document: Henry Maudsley
Responsibility in Mental Disease (1900)
Document: William James
Review of Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (1903)
Altered States: Drug Use and Addiction
Document: Thomas Trotter
An Essay
Medical
Philosophical
and Chemical
on Drunkenness and Its Effects on the Human Body (1813)
Document: "Effects on the Practice of Opium Eating" (Mr. Mart on Opium-Eating/To the Editor of The Lancet) (1832)
Document: "Opium Eating
" The Lancet (October 7
1835)
Document: "The Effects of Opium-Eating
" The Spectator (July 3
1875)
Racial Profiling: Physiognomy and Criminology
Document: "Another Brutal Murder of a Woman in East London
" The Guardian (September 10
1888)
Document: Havelock Ellis
The Criminal (1890)
Document: Max Nordau
Degeneration (1895)
Document: Cesare Lombroso and Gina Lombroso
Criminal Man (1911)
Suggested Readings
4 Dracula (Bram Stoker
1897)
Synopsis
Historical Background
About Bram Stoker
Why We Read This Work
Historical Explorations of Dracula
Documenting Dracula
Mind Games: Mesmerism
Hypnosis
and Telepathy
Document: W. H. Rodgers
Facts in Magnetism
Mesmerism
Somnambulism
Fascination
Hypnotism
Sycodonamy
Etherology
Pathetism
&c.
Explained and Illustrated (1849)
Document: James Esdaile
Natural and Mesmeric Clairvoyance (1852)
Document: William Benjamin Carpenter
Mesmerism
Spiritualism
&c.
Historically & Scientifically Considered
Being Two Lectures Delivered at the London Institution
with Preface and Appendix (1877)
The Science of Vampires: Contagion
Evolution
and Degeneration
Document: Thomas Percival
Medical Ethics; Or
a Code of Institutes and Precepts
Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons (1803)
Document: Johann Gaspar Spurzheim
Phrenology
Or
the Doctrine of the Mind: And of the Relations between Its Manifestations and the Body (1825)
Document: Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880)
Document: Timothy Holmes
ed.
A System of Surgery
Theoretical and Practical in Treatises by Various Authors (1881)
Document: Louis Pasteur
The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery (1909-1914)
The Eastern European "Other": Immigration and Fears of Social Contamination
Document: George Eliot
"The Modern Hep
Hep
Hep" (1879)
Document: Albert Shaw
ed.
"Foreigners in London" (1891)
Document: Henry Straus Quixano Henriques
The Law of Aliens and Naturalization Including the Text of the Aliens Act
1905 (1906)
Vampiric Communication: The Growth of Technology
Document: Thomas Edison
Description of the Phonograph and Phonograph-Gramophone by Their Respective Inventors (1888)
Document: Julius Ensign Rockwell
Shorthand Instruction and Practice (1893)
Document: Alan C. Reiley
"The Evolution of the Typewriter" (1914)
Suggested Readings
Index