Gothic Death 1740-1914

2016 Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English

Author : Andrew Smith
Release : 2016
Genre : Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 414/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Gothic Death 1740-1914 by : Andrew Smith

Download or read book Gothic Death 1740-1914 written by Andrew Smith. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. Later accounts of melancholy, as in the work of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, emphasise the literary construction of death. The shift from writing death to interpreting the signs of death is explored in relation to the work of Poe, Emily Brontë and George Eliot. A chapter on Dickens examines the significance of graves and capital punishment during the period. 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 period help to contextualise a specifically fin de siècle model of death. This book will be of interest to academics and students working on literature on the Gothic and more generally on the literary culture of the period.

Gothic death 1740–1914

2016-09-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Andrew Smith
Release : 2016-09-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 084/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Gothic death 1740–1914 by : Andrew Smith

Download or read book Gothic death 1740–1914 written by Andrew Smith. This book was released on 2016-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. Later accounts of melancholy, as in the work of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, emphasise the literary construction of death. The shift from writing death to interpreting the signs of death is explored in relation to the work of Poe, Emily Brontë and George Eliot. A chapter on Dickens examines the significance of graves and capital punishment during the period. 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 period help to contextualise a specifically fin de siècle model of death.

Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934

2024-05-31 History

Author : Smith Andrew
Release : 2024-05-31
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 449/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934 by : Smith Andrew

Download or read book Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934 written by Smith Andrew. This book was released on 2024-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War One This book examines the representation of the ghost-soldier in literature published from 1914-1934 both marking the presence of trauma and attempting to make sense of trauma. Andrew Smith examines short stories, novels, poems and memoirs that employ ghosts to reflect upon feelings of loss, paralleling the literary context with accounts of shell-shock which construe the damaged soldier as psychologically missing and therefore spectre-like. The author argues that literary and non-literary texts repeatedly deploy a form of the uncanny, familiar from a Gothic tradition, as way of reflecting upon grief. In support of this claim, he draws on fiction by well-known authors such as M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Dorothy L. Sayers and Dennis Wheatley, alongside largely forgotten contributions to The Strand and other periodical publications such as The Occult Review. Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield where he co-directs the Centre for the History of the Gothic. He is the author or editor of over twenty published books including Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History (2016) and The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History (2010).

Gothic Remains

2019-10-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Laurence Talairach
Release : 2019-10-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 618/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Gothic Remains by : Laurence Talairach

Download or read book Gothic Remains written by Laurence Talairach. This book was released on 2019-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror – the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton – capable of creating a sublime form of beauty. Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764–1897 offers an exploration of those Gothic tropes and conventions that were most thoroughly steeped in the anatomical culture of the period – from skeletons, used to understand human anatomy, to pathological human remains exhibited in medical museums; from bodysnatching aimed at providing dissection subjects, to live-burials resulting from medical misdiagnoses and pointing to contemporary research into the signs of death. The historicist reading of canonical and less-known Gothic texts proposed throughout Gothic Remains, explored through the prism of anatomy, seeks to offer new insights into the ways in which medical practice and the medical sciences informed the aesthetics of pain and death typically read therein, and the two-way traffic that emerged between medical literature and literary texts.

Gothic Literature

2007 Literary Criticism

Author : Andrew Smith
Release : 2007
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Gothic Literature by : Andrew Smith

Download or read book Gothic Literature written by Andrew Smith. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and coherent introduction provides a history of Gothic literature from the eighteenth century to the present day, within and across national borders.

Popular eBooks

Gothic Death 1740-1914

Gothic death 1740–1914

Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934

Gothic Remains

Gothic Literature

You may also like...