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Inventing the Gothic Corpse: The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Repost)

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Inventing the Gothic Corpse: The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Repost)

Inventing the Gothic Corpse: The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Yael Shapira
English | PDF | 2018 | 269 Pages | ISBN : 3319764837 | 5.1 MB

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.