Gothic Death 1740-1914 - A Literary HistoryPaperback
Gothic Death 1740-1914 - A Literary HistoryPaperback Gothic death 1740-1914 explores the representations of death and dying in Gothic narratives published between the mid-eighteenth century and the…
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Gothic Death 1740-1914 - A Literary HistoryPaperback
Gothic death 1740-1914 explores the representations of death and dying in Gothic narratives published between the mid-eighteenth century and the beginning of the First World War. Later accounts of melancholy, as in the work of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, emphasise the literary construction of death. The book investigates how eighteenth century Graveyard Poetry and the tradition of the elegy produced a version of death that underpinned ideas about empathy and models of textual composition.
A chapter on Dickens examines the significance of graves and capital punishment during the period. The shift from writing death to interpreting the signs of death is explored in relation to the work of Poe, Emily Bront and George Eliot. A chapter on Haggard, Stoker and Wilde explores conjunctions between love and death and a final chapter on Machen and Stoker explores how scientific ideas of the
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