Gothic Death 17401914: A Literary History by Andrew Smith (English) Paperback Bo

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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.

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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. It 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 Bronte 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 siecle model of death. -- .

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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 challenges ideas about the presence of a Gothic uncanny in the period by exploring how the dead either inspire empathy or become objects of scientific scrutiny. From Graveyard Poetry to the Gothic of the early twentieth century, images of the dead are used to explore ideas about sympathy, mourning and love. This narrative of death in the Gothic is paralleled by a movement from writing to reading in which the cultural emphasis shifts from concerns about how to represent the dead to a focus on decoding the meaning of death. Writers explored include Thomas Gray, Edward Young, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, James Boaden, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Bront

Author Biography

Andrew Smith is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Touched by the dead: eighteenth-century Gothic poetics2. Mourning, memory and melancholy: constructing death in the 1790s-1820s3. From writing to reading: Poe, Brontë and Eliot4. Gothic death and Dickens: executions, graves and dreams5. Loving the undead: Haggard, Stoker and Wilde6. Decoding the dying: Machen and StokerConclusionIndex

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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. It 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 Bronte 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 siecle model of death. -- .

Details ISBN1526131919 Author Andrew Smith Pages 224 Publisher Manchester University Press Year 2018 ISBN-10 1526131919 ISBN-13 9781526131911 Format Paperback Imprint Manchester University Press Subtitle A Literary History Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 809.38729 Media Book Publication Date 2018-06-25 Short Title Gothic Death 1740-1914 Language English UK Release Date 2018-06-25 AU Release Date 2018-06-25 NZ Release Date 2018-06-25 Audience General We've got this

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