Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History
by Andrew Smith /
2016 / English / PDF
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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 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.
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.