Inventing the Gothic Corpse: The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

by Yael Shapira

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319764837
• ISBN13: 9783319764832
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"