The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature

by Renee Fox

Honorable Mention, American Council for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First BookThe Necromantics dwells on the literal afterlives of history. Reading the reanimated corpses--monstrous, metaphorical, and occasionally electrified--that Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W. B. Yeats, Bram Stoker, and others bring to life, Ren e Fox argues that these undead figures embody the present's desire to remake...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814215491
• ISBN13: 9780814215494
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"