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En Europe, la fin du XIXe siècle s'accompagne d'une hantise du déclin, qui s’est exprimée en termes de dégénérescence. Dans des textes alarmistes au contenu parfois pseudo-scientifique, certains penseurs et savants britanniques s’inquiètent de l’usure « raciale » de la nation, du péril héréditaire et de la présence insidieuse du danger dans le corps social. La connaissance de ce contexte, marqué par la renaissance du genre gothique, permet de faire sortir de l’ombre des textes inquiétants et d’apporter un éclairage nouveau sur des romans célèbres, comme L’étrange cas du Dr Jekyll et de Mr Hyde, Le portrait de Dorian Gray, L’île du Dr Moreau, Dracula et la fiction de Conan Doyle consacrée à la figure de Sherlock Holmes.L’être dégénérant en perpétuelle mutation revit un passé personnel, familial et biologique. Son corps est à la fois étranger et reconnaissable, monstrueux et déchiffrable. Certains romanciers prônent la régénération, d’autres mélangent jusqu’à les confondre la morbidité et la puissance, le dégénéré et le défenseur social, le malade et le médecin, le fou moral et le fou de moralité. En créant des êtres si indignes qu’il va devoir les liquider, l’écrivain transforme la dégénérescence en création.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- English fiction --- Great Britain
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This book brings together fourteen of the most ambitious and thought-provoking recent essays by David Punter, who has been writing on the Gothic to academic and general acclaim for over thirty years. Punter addresses developments in Gothic writing and Gothic criticism since the mid-eighteenth century, by isolating and discussing specific themes and scenarios that have remained relevant to literary and philosophical discussion over the decades and centuries, and also by paying close attention to the motifs, figures and recurrences that loom so large in twenty-first-century engagements with the Gothic. This book, while engaging deeply with Gothic history, constantly addresses our continuing immediate encounters with Gothic tropes – the vampire, the zombie, the phantom, the living dead.
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"A Research Guide to Gothic Fiction in English covers the study of Gothic cultural artifacts, focusing on narrative fiction. This authoritative guide equips students and other researchers with valuable information about recent noteworthy resources that they can use to make their research effective and thorough"--
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This volume carves out a new area of study, the 'industrial Gothic', placing the genre in dialogue with the literature of the Industrial Revolution. The book explores a significant subset of transatlantic nineteenth-century literature that employs the tropes, themes and rhetoric of the Gothic to portray the real-life horrors of factory life, framing the Industrial Revolution as a site of Gothic excess and horror. Using archival materials from the nineteenth century, localised incidences of Gothic industrialisation (in specific cities like Lowell and Manchester) are considered alongside transnational connections and comparisons. The author argues that stories about the real horrors of factory life frequently employed the mode of the Gothic, while nineteenth century writing in the genre (stories, novels, poems and stage adaptations) began to use new settings - factories, mills, and industrial cities - as backdrops for the horrors that once populated Gothic castles.
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The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror – the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton – capable of creating a sublime form of beauty. Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764–1897 offers an exploration of those Gothic tropes and conventions that were most thoroughly steeped in the anatomical culture of the period – from skeletons, used to understand human anatomy, to pathological human remains exhibited in medical museums; from bodysnatching aimed at providing dissection subjects, to live-burials resulting from medical misdiagnoses and pointing to contemporary research into the signs of death. The historicist reading of canonical and less-known Gothic texts proposed throughout Gothic Remains, explored through the prism of anatomy, seeks to offer new insights into the ways in which medical practice and the medical sciences informed the aesthetics of pain and death typically read therein, and the two-way traffic that emerged between medical literature and literary texts.
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Children's stories, English --- Children's stories, English. --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English. --- History and criticism. --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Psychological study of literature --- Gothic --- jeugdliteratuur
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