Inventing the Gothic Corpse: The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

ISBN-13: 9783319764832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 265 str.

Yael Shapira

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Yael Shapira is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Her work has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Life, Narrative, Women’s Writing and elsewhere. Her current research focuses on the forgotten Gothic novels of the Minerva Press in the Romantic period.