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Gothic Death 17401914 - A Literary History

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor 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) Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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