Gothic Death 17401914 - A Literary History

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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)

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Smith
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781526131911
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3191-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Romanticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Sociology: death and dying, Biography, Literature and Literary studies