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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
2018.
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| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38038924*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
