Gothic and Death

An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.

Table des matières

Introduction - The corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity - Carol Margaret Davison
Part I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives
1. Past, present, and future death in the graveyard - Serena Trowbridge
2. On the very Verge of legitimate Invention': Charles Bonnet and Blake's illustrations to The Grave (1808)' - Sibylle Erle
3. Entranced by death: Horace Smith's Mesmerism - Bruce Wyse
Part II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories
4. 'This dreadful machine': the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control - Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström
5. Undying histories: Washington Irving's Gothic afterlives - Yael Maurer
6. Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron's Gothic - Adam White
Part III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations
7. The annihilation of self and species: The ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Jennifer Schell
8. Death cults in Gothic 'Lost World' fiction - John Cameron Hartley
9. Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline - Matthew Pangborn
Part IV: Global Gothic dead
10. A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 'I fatali' - Christina Petraglia
11. Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism - Katherine Bowers
12. Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir - Vijay Mishra
Part V: Twenty-first century gothic and death
13. Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people - Michelle J. Smith
14. Modernity's fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire - Carol Margaret Davison
15. 'I'm not in that thing you know ... I'm remote. I'm in the cloud': networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker's 'Be Right Back' - Neal Kirk
Index

A propos de l'auteur

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor and Head of Department of the English Language, Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor

Résumé

An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms. -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Carol Davison, Carol Margaret Davison
• Collaboration: Carol Davison (Editeur), Carol Margaret Davison (Editeur), Davison Carol (Editeur), Carol Margaret Davison (Editeur)
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781526139474
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3947-4
• Pages: 256
• Thèmes: International Gothic Mup; International Gothic Series; International Gothic Mup
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Literature: history & criticism, Romanticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Sociology: death and dying, Film history, theory or criticism