The necromantics : reanimation, the historical imagination, and Victorian British and Irish literature

The necromantics : reanimation, the historical imagination, and Victorian British and Irish literature / Ren ee Fox.

Author/creator	Fox, Renée Allyson, 1977- author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
Copyright Notice	2023
Description	x, 267 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	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. 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.

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.
Abstract	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-260) and index.
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN	2022059674
ISBN	9780814215494
ISBN	0814215491 (cloth)
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