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Inventing the gothic corpsethe thril...

Shapira, Yael.

Inventing the gothic corpsethe thrill of human remains in the eighteenth-century novel /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Inventing the gothic corpseby Yael Shapira.
Reminder of title:	the thrill of human remains in the eighteenth-century novel /
Author:	Shapira, Yael.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018.
Description:	xii, 265 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Gothic fiction (Literary genre), EnglishHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76484-9
ISBN:	9783319764849$q(electronic bk.)

Inventing the gothic corpsethe thrill of human remains in the eighteenth-century novel /
Shapira, Yael.

Inventing the gothic corpsethe thrill of human remains in the eighteenth-century novel /[electronic resource] :by Yael Shapira. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xii, 265 p. :digital ;22 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9783319764849$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-76484-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

461103
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PN3435

Dewey Class. No.: 809.38729

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