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865152
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Shapira, Yael
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Inventing the Gothic Corpse : : the thrill of human remains in the eighteenth-century novel /\ Yael Shapira.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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1 online resource
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3319764845
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3319764837
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9783319764832
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Novel, the Corpse and the Eighteenth-Century Marketplace; Eighteenth-Century Contexts (I): The Novel and the Corpse; Eighteenth-Century Contexts (II): Corpses and Commerce; Eighteenth-Century Contexts (III): The Corpse and the Audience; The Fictional Corpse: Taking the Long View; Part I: Remains of the Past; Chapter 2: Spectacles for Sale: Reframing the Didactic Corpse in Behn and Defoe; Behn (I): Martyr or Political Threat?; Behn (II): "Diversions Every Minute, New and Strange"; Defoe (I): Preaching Plague or Counting Bodies.
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Defoe (II): "The Itch of a Tale"Chapter 3: Fictional Corpses at Mid-Century: Richardson, Fielding and the Trouble with Hamlet; Eighteenth-Century Hamlet and the Disappearing Corpse; Civilizing Corpses: Bardolatry and the Novel; Clarissa: Memento Mori for Decorous Fiction; Tom Jones: Distancing the Corpse; Coda: Towards the Gothic Future; Part II: Gothic Negotiations; Chapter 4: Death, Delicacy and the Novel: The Corpse in Women's Gothic Fiction; The Radcliffe/Lewis Divide: A Novel Perspective; Radcliffe and the Challenge of "Delicacy."
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The Mysteries of Udolpho: Teaching the Lesson of the CorpseBodies on the Margins: Kelly and Carver; Chapter 5: Shamelessly Gothic: Enjoying the Corpse in The Monk and Zofloya; The Monk (I): Clarissa in the Gothic Vault; The Monk (II): The Corpse as Technological Challenge; Zofloya: Destroying the Exquisite Corpse (and Loving It); Chapter 6: Conclusion: Remains to Be Seen; Bibliography; Index.
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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. In tracing this long historical arc, Shapira illuminates a hidden side of the history of the novel: the dead body, she shows, helps the fledgling literary form confront its own controversial ability to entertain. Her close scrutiny of fictional corpses across the long eighteenth century reveals how the dead body functions as a test of the novel's intentions, a chance for novelists to declare their allegiances in the battle between the didactic and the "merely" pleasurable.
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Death in literature.
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English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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Fear in literature.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)-- History and criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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Death in literature.
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English fiction.
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Fear in literature.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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| Dewey Classification
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809.3/8729
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PN3435
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