Inventing the Gothic Corpse The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel /

• Main Author: Shapira, Yael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-18th century.; Fiction.; British literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.