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Author/Creator:Fox, Renée Allyson, 1977- author.
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Title:The necromantics : reanimation, the historical imagination, and Victorian British and Irish literature / Renée Fox.
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ISBN:9780814215494
0814215491
9780814282922
081428292X
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Publication:Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
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Copyright notice date: ©2023
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Physical Description:x, 267 pages ; 24 cm
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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"--
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-260) and index.
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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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Subjects:Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889--Criticism and interpretation.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation.
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912--Criticism and interpretation.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--Irish authors--19th century--History and criticism.
Reincarnation in literature.
Zombies in literature.
Mummies in literature.
English literature.
English literature--Irish authors.
Mummies in literature.
Reincarnation in literature.
Zombies in literature.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16711909