Inventing the Gothic Corpse

The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Autor: Yael Shapira

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Editura: Springer International Publishing AG

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Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British rea...

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Autor

Yael Shapira

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2018

Pagini

265

EAN

9783319764832

ISBN

3319764837

Enbook ID

18906478

Editura

Springer International Publishing AG

Greutate

493

Dimensiuni

148 x 210 x 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.

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