Bronfen / Unknown / Neumeier Gothic Renaissance

A reassessment
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1115-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Bronfen, Elisabeth

Neumeier, Beate

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
5. 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
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

Über Autor(innen)

Bronfen Elisabeth:
Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor at the English Department of Zurich UniversityNeumeier Beate:
Beate Neumeier is Professor of English Studies at the University of CologneElisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich

Beate Neumeier is Professor of English Studies at the University of Cologne