Suicide and the Gothic

Informationen zum Autor William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University 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 Suicide and the Gothic is the first study of the representation of suicide in Gothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Poems, short stories, novels, films and video games are covered from European, American and Asian contexts. Zusammenfassung Suicide and the Gothic is the first study of the representation of suicide in Gothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Poems! short stories! novels! films and video games are covered from European! American and Asian contexts. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the most Gothic of acts - suicide in generic context William Hughes and Andrew Smith 1 Scottish revenants: Caledonian fatality in Thomas Percy's Reliques Frank Ferguson and Danni Glover 2 Male and female Werthers: Romanticism and Gothic suicide Lisa Vargo 3 'The supposed incipiency of mental disease': guilt, regret and suicide in three ghost stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu William Hughes 4 'The body of a self-destroyer': suicide and the self in the fin de siècle Gothic Andrew Smith 5 'To be mistress of her own fate': suicide as control and contagion in the works of Richard Marsh Graeme Pedlingham 6 Suicide as Justice? The self-destroying Gothic villain in Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood Bridget M. Marshall 7 Gothic influences: darkness and suicide in the work of Patricia Highsmith Fiona Peters 8 Better not to have been: Thomas Ligotti and the 'Suicide' of the human race Xavier Aldana Reyes and Rachid M'Rabty 9 Vampire suicide Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 10 Under the dying sun: suicide and the Gothic in modern Japanese literature and culture Katarzyna Ancuta 11 'I Will Abandon This Body and Take to the Air': the suicide at the heart of Dear Esther Dawn Stobbart ...

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• Authors: William (Professor of Medical Humanities a Hughes, William Smith Hughes
• Assisted by: Jerrold Hogle (Editor), William Hughes (Editor), William (Professor of Medical Humanities and Gothic Literature at Bath Spa University) Hughes (Editor), Andrew Smith (Editor), Andrew (Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield) Smith (Editor), Hughes William William (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781526120083
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2008-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: International Gothic Series; International Gothic Series; International Gothic
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies