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Inventing the Gothic Corpse

The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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Palgrave Macmillan


Paru le : 2018-05-22



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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 they appear regularly in Gothic and horror stories as a source of macabre pleasure. Yael Shapira’s book tracks this change at it unfolds in eighteenth-century fiction, from the early novels of Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe, through the groundbreaking mid-century works of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Horace Walpole, to the Gothic fictions of Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre and Minerva Press authors Isabella Kelly and Mrs. Carver.
In tracing this long historical arc, Shapira illuminates a hidden side of the history of the novel: the dead body, she shows, helps the fledgling literary form confront its own controversial ability to entertain. Her close scrutiny of fictional corpses across the long eighteenth century reveals how the dead body functions as a test of the novel’s intentions, a chance for novelists to declare their allegiances in the battle between the didactic and the “merely” pleasurable. 
Pages
265 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2018-05-22
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783319764832
EAN PDF
9783319764849
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2
Nombre pages imprimables
26
Taille du fichier
5263 Ko
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94,94 €
EAN EPUB
9783319764849
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
26
Taille du fichier
1864 Ko
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps Voir les informations sur l'accessibilité
Prix
94,94 €

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