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. It 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. The shift from
writing death to interpreting the signs of death is explored in
relation to the work of Poe, Emily Bronte and George Eliot. A
chapter on Dickens examines the significance of graves and capital
punishment during the period. A chapter on Haggard, Stoker and
Wilde explores conjunctions between love and death and a final
chapter on Machen and Stoker explores how scientific ideas of the
period help to contextualise a specifically fin de siecle model of
death. -- .
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