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UNINA9910814408703321 |
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Autore |
Smith Andrew <1964-> |
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Titolo |
Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / / Andrew Smith |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-5261-0108-4 |
1-5261-1525-5 |
1-5261-0107-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English - History and criticism |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Death in literature |
Literature |
Literature & Literary Studies |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance |
Biography, Literature & Literary studies - Gothic - United Kingdom, Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2016. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction 1. Touched by the dead: eighteenth-century Gothic poetics 2. Mourning, memory and melancholy: constructing death in the 1790s-1820s 3. From writing to reading: Poe, Brontèˆ and Eliot 4. Gothic death and Dickens: executions, graves and dreams 5. Loving the undead: Haggard, Stoker and Wilde 6. Decoding the dying: Machen and Stoker Conclusion Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914. |
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