The Gothic and death (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Davison, Carol

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries. It investigates how the multifarious strands of the Gothic and the concepts of death, dying, mourning and memorialisation ('the Death Question') - have intersected and been configured cross-culturally to diverse ends from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Drawing on recent scholarship in such fields as Gothic Studies, film theory, Women's and Gender Studies and Thanatology Studies, this interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays by international scholars combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known. This area of enquiry is considered by way of such popular and uncanny figures as corpses, ghosts, zombies and vampires, and across various cultural and literary forms such as Graveyard Poetry, Romantic poetry, Victorian literature, nineteenth-century Italian and Russian literature, Anglo-American film and television, contemporary Young Adult fiction and Bollywood film noir.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526107923
• Artikelnr.: 57473489

Autorenporträt

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor and Head of Department of the English Language, Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - The corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity -
Carol Margaret Davison Part I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives 1. Past,
present, and future death in the graveyard - Serena Trowbridge 2. On the
very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and Blake's
illustrations to The Grave (1808)' - Sibylle Erle 3. Entranced by death:
Horace Smith's Mesmerism - Bruce Wyse Part II: Gothic revolutions and
undead histories 4. 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the
aesthetics of crowd control - Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström 5. Undying
histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives - Yael Maurer 6. Deadly
interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic - Adam
White Part III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations 7. The
annihilation of self and species: The ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary
Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Jennifer Schell 8. Death cults in Gothic
'Lost World' fiction - John Cameron Hartley 9. Dead again: zombies and the
spectre of cultural decline - Matthew Pangborn Part IV: Global Gothic dead
10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' - Christina
Petraglia 11. Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian
realism - Katherine Bowers 12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir -
Vijay Mishra Part V: Twenty-first century gothic and death 13. Dead and
ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people - Michelle J.
Smith 14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E.
Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire - Carol Margaret Davison 15. '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' - Neal Kirk Index