Andrew Smith

Gothic death 1740-1914 (eBook, ePUB)

A literary history

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gothic death 1740-1914 explores the representations of death and dying in Gothic narratives published between the mid-eighteenth century and the beginning of the First World War. The book investigates how eighteenth century Graveyard Poetry and the tradition of the elegy produced a version of death that underpinned ideas about empathy and models of textual composition. Later accounts of melancholy, as in the work of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, emphasise the literary construction of death. The shift from writing death to interpreting the signs of death is explored in relation to the work of Poe, Emily Brontë and George Eliot. A chapter on Dickens examines the significance of graves and capital punishment during the period. A chapter on Haggard, Stoker and Wilde explores conjunctions between love and death and a final chapter on Machen and Stoker explores how scientific ideas of the period help to contextualise a specifically fin de siècle model of death.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101082
• Artikelnr.: 48795383

Autorenporträt

Andrew Smith is an aircraft structure technician, writer, designer, and illustrator. He has a special interest in spiritual connectivity and the wide-ranging forces of harmony, wisdom, patience, prudence, and discipline. He lives in Ottawa with his family.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Touched by the dead: eighteenth-century Gothic poetics 2. Mourning
memory and melancholy: constructing death in the 1790s-1820s 3. From writing to reading: Poe
Brontë and Eliot 4. Gothic death and Dickens: executions
graves and dreams 5. Loving the undead: Haggard
Stoker and Wilde 6. Decoding the dying: Machen and Stoker Conclusion Index