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The Gothic and death The INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC Series The Series’ Board of General Editors Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich, Switzerland Steven Bruhm, University of Western Ontario, Canada Ken Gelder, University of Melbourne, Australia Jerrold Hogle, University of Arizona, USA (Chair) Avril Horner, Kingston University, UK William Hughes, Bath Spa University, UK The Editorial Advisory Board Glennis Byron, University of Stirling, Scotland Robert Miles, University of Victoria, Canada David Punter, University of Bristol, England Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan, Wales Anne Williams, University of Georgia, USA Previously published Monstrous media/spectral subjects: imaging gothic from the nineteenth century to the present Edited by Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner Globalgothic Edited by Glennis Byron EcoGothic Edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes The Gothic and death Edited by Carol Margaret Davison Manchester University Press Copyright © Manchester University Press 2017 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 978 1 7849 9269 9 hardback First published 2017 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset in Arno Pro by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire Contents List of figures page viii List of contributors ix Series editor’s preface xiv Acknowledgements xvi Introduction – the corpse in the closet: the Gothic, death, and modernity 1 Carol Margaret Davison Part I: Gothic graveyards and afterlives 1 Past, present, and future in the Gothic graveyard 21 Serena Trowbridge 2 ‘On the very Verge of legitimate Invention’: Charles Bonnet and William Blake’s illustrations to Robert Blair’s The Grave (1808) 34 Sibylle Erle 3 Entranced by death: Horace Smith’s Mesmerism 48 Bruce Wyse DAVISON 9781784992699 PRINT.indd 5 06/01/2017 08:44 vi Contents Part II: Gothic revolutions and undead histories 4 ‘This dreadful machine’: the spectacle of death and the aesthetics of crowd control 63 Emma Galbally and Conrad Brunström 5 Undying histories: Washington Irving’s Gothic afterlives 76 Yael Maurer 6 Deadly interrogations: cycles of death and transcendence in Byron’s Gothic 88 Adam White Part III: Gothic apocalypses: dead selves/dead civilizations 7 The annihilation of self and species: the ecoGothic sensibilities of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne 103 Jennifer Schell 8 Death cults in Gothic ‘Lost World’ fiction 116 John Cameron Hartley 9 Dead again: zombies and the spectre of cultural decline 130 Matthew Pangborn Part IV: Global Gothic dead 10 A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti’s ‘I fatali’ 145 Christina Petraglia 11 Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism 157 Katherine Bowers 12 Afterdeath and the Bollywood Gothic noir 174 Vijay Mishra Part V: Twenty-first-century Gothic and death 13 Dead and ghostly children in contemporary literature for young people 191 Michelle J. Smith DAVISON 9781784992699 PRINT.indd 6 06/01/2017 08:44 Contents vii 14 Modernity’s fatal addictions: technological necromancy and E. Elias Merhige’s Shadow of the Vampire 204 Carol Margaret Davison 15 ‘I’m not in that thing you know . . . I’m remote. I’m in the cloud’: networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker’s ‘Be Right Back’ 218 Neal Kirk DAVISON 9781784992699 PRINT.indd 7 06/01/2017 08:44 List of figures 2.1 Th e Death of the Good Old Man. Collection of Robert N. Essick. Copyright © 2015 William Blake Archive. Used with permission. page 40 2.2 D eath of the Strong Wicked Man. Collection of Robert N. Essick. Copyright © 2015 William Blake Archive. Used with permission. 42 2.3 C hrist Descending into the Grave. Collection of Robert N. Essick. Copyright © 2015 William Blake Archive. Used with permission. 44 12.1 M ahal (The Mansion), Kamal Amrohi (1949) – The uncanny resemblance of past life. 182 12.2 Madhumati, Bimal Roy (1958) – Entry into the mansion. 183 12.3 M adhumati, Bimal Roy (1958) – ‘These are my own brush strokes’. 184 12.4 M adhumati, Bimal Roy (1958) – The double and colonial architecture. 185 List of contributors List of contributors Katherine Bowers is Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is working on a monograph on the influence of eighteenth-century Western Gothic fiction on Russian realism. In 2015 her co-edited volume Russian Writers and the Fin de Siècle: The Twilight of Realism appeared; the collection’s chapters focus on why nineteenth-century Russian literature tends towards the gloomy. Her work has appeared in American, British, and Russian publications. Conrad Brunström is Lecturer in English at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has published two monographs on William Cowper (2004) and Thomas Sheridan (2011) as well as essays on Samuel Johnson, Frances Burney, Charles Churchill, and a variety of other eighteenth-century authors and topics including religious poetry, oratory, nationalism, and queer studies. Carol Margaret Davison is Professor and Head of the Department of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. Her published books include History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764–1824 (2009) and Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (2004). She has published on a wide variety of Gothic-related authors and topics, and has just completed a co-edited collection of critical essays devoted to the Scottish Gothic for Edinburgh University Press with Dr Monica Germanà. She is currently at work on a casebook of criticism of the British Gothic, 1764–1824.

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