The Gothic and death (International Gothic Series)

By: Carol Davison

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Synopsis: The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries. It investigates how the multifarious strands of the Gothic and the concepts of death, dying, mourning and memorialisation ('the Death Question') - have intersected and been configured cross-culturally to diverse ends from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Drawing on recent scholarship in such fields as Gothic Studies, film theory, Women's and Gender Studies and Thanatology Studies, this interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays by international scholars combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known. This area of enquiry is considered by way of such popular and uncanny figures as corpses, ghosts, zombies and vampires, and across various cultural and literary forms such as Graveyard Poetry, Romantic poetry, Victorian literature, nineteenth-century Italian and Russian literature, Anglo-American film and television, contemporary Young Adult fiction and Bollywood film noir.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 224 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781526107916
Related ISBNs:: 9781784992699, 9781784992699, 9781784992699, 9781526139474, 9781526107923, 9781784992699, 9781526139474, 9781526107923, 9781784992699, 9781526139474, 9781526107923
Publisher:: Manchester University Press
Date of Addition:: 01/15/19
Copyrighted By:: Carol Margaret Davison
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Romance, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Carol Davison