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Gothic Renaissance [[electronic resource] ] : a reassessment / / Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier [[electronic resource]] |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English - History and criticism |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction - Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier. Part I: Shakesperean hauntings -- 1.Yorick's skull - John Drakakis -- 2. Beyond reason: Hamlet and early modern stage ghosts - Catherine Belsey -- 3. 'What do I fear? myself?': nightmares, conscience and the 'gothic' self in Richard III - Per Sivefors -- 4. Queen Margaret's haunting revenge: the gothic legacy of Shakespeare's War of the Roses - Elisabeth Bronfen Part II: Renaissance theatre -- Vision and desire: fantastic Renaissance spectacles - Beate Neumeier -- 6. From grotesque to gothic: Ben Jonson's Masque of Queenes - Lynn Meskill. Part III: Gothic textuality in the early modern period -- 7. Exhumations: scopophobia in Renaissance texts - Duncan Salkeld -- 8. Bright hair and brittle bones. Gothic affinities in metaphysical poetry - Ulrike Zimmermann -- 9. Vampirism in the bower of bliss - Garrett Sullivan -- 10. Ghostly authorities and the British popular press - Andrea Brady <BR>Part IV: Persistence of the gothic -- 11. Monstrous to our human reason. Minding the gap In The Winter's Tale - Richard Wilson -- 12. Shakespeare, Ossian and the problem of 'scottish gothic' - Dale Townshend -- 13. The rage of Caliban. Dorian Gray and the gothic body - Andreas HoĢfele -- Index. |
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This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the |
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