Andrew Smith

Gothic death 1740-1914

A literary history

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Produktbeschreibung

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. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781526131911
• ISBN-10: 1526131919
• Artikelnr.: 50911575

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