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Gothic Death 1740-1914

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Gothic Death 1740-1914

By Andrew Smith

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Gothic death 1740-1914 explores the representations of death and dying in Gothic narratives published between the mid-eighteenth century and the beginning of the First World War. The book investigates how eighteenth century Graveyard Poetry and the tradition of the elegy produced a version of death that underpinned ideas about empathy and models of textual composition. Later accounts of melancholy, as in the work of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, emphasise the literary construction of death. Th...Show more

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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9781526131911

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Manchester University Press

Published year

2018

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Gothic Death 1740-1914

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