Smith Gothic death 1740–1914

A literary history
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0107-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Smith Andrew:

Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)Andrew Smith is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield