Inventing the Gothic Corpse The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel /
Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a thrill device. For centuries, vivid images of the corpse were used to deliver a spiritual or political message; today th...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. Introduction: The Novel, the Corpse, and the Eighteenth-Century Marketplace
- 2. Spectacles for Sale: Reframing the Didactic Corpse in Behn and Defoe
- 3. Fictional Corpses at Mid-Century: Richardson, Fielding, and the Trouble with Hamlet
- 4. Death, Delicacy and the Novel: The Corpse in Women's Gothic Fiction
- 5. Shamelessly Gothic: Enjoying the Corpse in The Monk and Zofloya
- 6. Conclusion: Remains to Be Seen.