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The necromantics : reanimation, the historical imagination, and Victorian British and Irish literature
Title
The necromantics : reanimation, the historical imagination, and Victorian British and Irish literature / Renée Fox.
ISBN
9780814215494
0814215491
9780814282922
081428292X
Publication
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
x, 267 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"Critiques the boundary between Victorian studies and Irish studies and interrogates how Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, and Bram Stoker leveraged reanimated bodies in their work to reimagine the past"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 20, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-260) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Necromantic Victorians
How Frankenstein got history
Dickensian zombies in Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend
Robert Browning's necropoetics
W.B. Yeats and the necromantic museum
Bram Stoker's Irish mummy gothic
Epilogue: The undead reader, or the perils of resuscitative reading.
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