The ghost story, 1840-1920 [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history / / Andrew Smith
| The ghost story, 1840-1920 [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history / / Andrew Smith |
| Autore | Smith Andrew <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.0873309 |
| Soggetto topico | Ghost stories, English - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
British ghost story
Charlotte Riddell Henry James May Sinclair Vernon Lee long nineteenth century spectral language spectrality spirit messages textual analysis |
| ISBN |
1-78170-000-1
1-84779-345-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 9780719074462; 9780719074462; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Seeing the spectre: an economic theory of the ghost story; 2 Dickens's spectres: sight, money,and reading the ghost story; 3 Money and machines: Wilkie Collins's ghosts; 4 Love, money, and history: the female ghost story; 5 Reading ghosts and reading texts: spiritualism; 6 Haunted houses and history: Henry James's Anglo-American ghosts; 7 Colonial ghosts: mimicry,history, and laughter; 8 M.R. James's Gothic revival; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791952503321 |
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Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / / Andrew Smith
| Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / / Andrew Smith |
| Autore | Smith Andrew <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 pages) |
| Disciplina | 823.087209 |
| Soggetto topico |
Tod (Motiv)
Gothic novel |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-5261-0108-4
1-5261-1525-5 1-5261-0107-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910156234803321 |
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| Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , [2016] | ||
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Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / / Andrew Smith
| Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / / Andrew Smith |
| Autore | Smith Andrew <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 823.08729093548 |
| Collana | Manchester Gothic |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Corpse
Creativity Death Gothic Romanticism Uncanny Writing nineteenth century |
| ISBN |
1-5261-0108-4
1-5261-1525-5 1-5261-0107-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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, Brontë 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792660303321 |
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| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 | ||
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Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / / Andrew Smith
| Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / / Andrew Smith |
| Autore | Smith Andrew <1964-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 823/.087209 |
| Collana | Manchester Gothic |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781526101082
1526101084 9781526115256 1526115255 9781526101075 1526101076 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1 Touched by the dead: eighteenth-century Gothic poetics ; The elegy: critical overviews; Sensibility; The elegy; Gothic creativity; Death and poetry: seeing the Gothic in the 1790s; Notes; 2 Mourning, memory and melancholy: constructing death constructing death in the 1790s-1820s ; Mourning and memory; Rogers and the importance of memory; Charlotte Smith; Inscriptions of death and the construction of mourning; Constructing the self.
Reanimating the dead: the ethics of memory in The Man of Two LivesNotes; 3 From writing to reading: Poe, Brontë and Eliot; Voicing death: Poe; Life, death and the cosmos; Death and the repeated life; Writing death; Wuthering Heights: knowing death?; Lifting the veil; A science of death; Notes; 4 Gothic death and Dickens: executions, graves and dreams; State killing; Oliver Twist and the Christian uncanny; The culture of the graveyard; Twins and doubles; Dreams, death and the imagination; Drood: decoding death; Notes; 5 Loving the undead: Haggard, Stoker and Wilde. Haggard: love and death in SheLove and understanding in The Jewel of Seven Stars; Ayesha: The Return of She and dialogues with the dead; Raising the dead: The Lady of the Shroud; Dorian Gray and the imagination; Notes; 6 Decoding the dying: Machen and Stoker; The science of spirits: Henry Drummond; Myers and the subliminal self; Machen's Gothic fragments; Dracula: writers, readers, editors; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910962398903321 |
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| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 | ||
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Gothic literature [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew Smith
| Gothic literature [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew Smith |
| Autore | Smith Andrew <1964-> |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina |
809.38729
820.911 |
| Collana | Edinburgh critical guides to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Gothic revival (Literature) - Great Britain
Gothic revival (Literature) - United States English literature - 18th century - History and criticism English literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - 18th century - History and criticism American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-78402-000-1
0-7486-4743-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Series Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chronology""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Gothic Heyday,1760�1820""; ""2 The Gothic, 1820�1865""; ""3 Gothic Proximities, 1865�1900""; ""4 Twentieth Century""; ""5 Contemporary Gothic""; ""Conclusion""; ""Student Resources""; ""Index"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462658703321 |
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| Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2013 | ||
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Gothic literature [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew Smith
| Gothic literature [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew Smith |
| Autore | Smith Andrew <1964-> |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina |
809.38729
820.911 |
| Collana | Edinburgh critical guides to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Gothic revival (Literature) - Great Britain
Gothic revival (Literature) - United States English literature - 18th century - History and criticism English literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - 18th century - History and criticism American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-78402-000-1
0-7486-4743-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Series Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chronology""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Gothic Heyday,1760�1820""; ""2 The Gothic, 1820�1865""; ""3 Gothic Proximities, 1865�1900""; ""4 Twentieth Century""; ""5 Contemporary Gothic""; ""Conclusion""; ""Student Resources""; ""Index"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786885403321 |
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| Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2013 | ||
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Gothic literature / / Andrew Smith
| Gothic literature / / Andrew Smith |
| Autore | Smith Andrew <1964-> |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina |
809.38729
820.911 |
| Collana | Edinburgh critical guides to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Gothic revival (Literature) - Great Britain
Gothic revival (Literature) - United States English literature - 18th century - History and criticism English literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - 18th century - History and criticism American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
9781784020002
1784020001 9780748647439 0748647430 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Series Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chronology""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Gothic Heyday,1760�1820""; ""2 The Gothic, 1820�1865""; ""3 Gothic Proximities, 1865�1900""; ""4 Twentieth Century""; ""5 Contemporary Gothic""; ""Conclusion""; ""Student Resources""; ""Index"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910973302203321 |
Smith Andrew <1964->
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| Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2013 | ||
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