Dark Thread (eBook)

From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

John D. Lyons (Herausgeber)

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2019
272 Seiten
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
978-1-64453-164-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which incidents such as murder, cannibalism, poisoning, the burial of the living, the failed burial of the dead, and subsequent apparitions of ghosts that haunt the household unite "e;high"e; and "e;low"e; cultural traditions. This book questions the traditional separation between the highly honored genre of tragedy and the less respected and generally less well-known genres of histoires tragiques, gothic tales and novels, and horror stories. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Autor

lt;p>John D. Lyons is a Professor of French at the University of Virginia and the author of Tragedy and the Return of the Dead.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Early Modern Exchange
• Co-Autor: Alison Booth, Philippe Roger, Guy Spielmann, Maria Tausiet, Jennifer Tsien, Caroline Warman, Marina S. Brownlee, Herve-Thomas Campangne, Timothy Chesters, David LaGuardia, Kathleen Long, John D. Lyons, Michael Meere, Jocelyn Moore
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b&w illus, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Charlottesville
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-64453-164-X / 164453164X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64453-164-8 / 9781644531648