Gothic Renaissance [[electronic resource] ] : a reassessment / / Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 820.9003
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
• Classificazione: 18.05
• Persona (resp. second.): BronfenElisabeth; NeumeierBeate
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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 Höfele -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gothic Renaissance
• ISBN: 1-78170-689-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154309503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II