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- Title Pages
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Series editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction – the corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity
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1 Past, present, and future in the Gothic graveyard -
2 ‘On the very Verge of legitimate Invention’: Charles Bonnet and William Blake’s illustrations to Robert Blair’s The Grave (1808) -
3 Entranced by death: Horace Smith’s Mesmerism -
4 ‘This dreadful machine’: the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control -
5 Undying histories: Washington Irving’s Gothic afterlives -
6 Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron’s Gothic -
7 The annihilation of self and species: the ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne -
8 Death cults in Gothic ‘Lost World’ fiction -
9 Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline -
10 A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti’s ‘I fatali’ -
11 Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism -
12 Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir -
13 Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people -
14 Modernity’s fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige’s Shadow of the Vampire -
15 ‘I’m not in that thing you know … I’m remote. I’m in the cloud’: networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker’s ‘Be Right Back’ - Index
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- Title Pages
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Series editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction – the corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity
-
1 Past, present, and future in the Gothic graveyard -
2 ‘On the very Verge of legitimate Invention’: Charles Bonnet and William Blake’s illustrations to Robert Blair’s The Grave (1808) -
3 Entranced by death: Horace Smith’s Mesmerism -
4 ‘This dreadful machine’: the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control -
5 Undying histories: Washington Irving’s Gothic afterlives -
6 Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron’s Gothic -
7 The annihilation of self and species: the ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne -
8 Death cults in Gothic ‘Lost World’ fiction -
9 Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline -
10 A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti’s ‘I fatali’ -
11 Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism -
12 Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir -
13 Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people -
14 Modernity’s fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige’s Shadow of the Vampire -
15 ‘I’m not in that thing you know … I’m remote. I’m in the cloud’: networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker’s ‘Be Right Back’ - Index
