Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History
Andrew Smith
Abstract
The focus in this book is on how the dead and dying were represented in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914-between Graveyard poetry and the mass death occasioned by the First World War. The corpse might seem to have an obvious place in the Gothic imaginary but, as we shall see, the corpse so often refuses to function as a formal Gothic prop and in order to understand why this occurs we need to explore what the corpse figuratively represented in the Gothic during the long nineteenth century. Representations of death often provide a vehicle for other contemplations than just death. A central aim ... More
Keywords: Death, Uncanny, Gothic, Corpse, Creativity, Writing, Romanticism, nineteenth century
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719088414 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: January 2017 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719088414.001.0001 |
