Author: John KolyerPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Recreations of a Corpse
Author: John KolyerRecreation
Author: Inventing the Gothic Corpse
Author: Yael ShapiraPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319764845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
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 fiction, from the early novels of Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe, through the groundbreaking mid-century works of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Horace Walpole, to the Gothic fictions of Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre and Minerva Press authors Isabella Kelly and Mrs. Carver. In tracing this long historical arc, Shapira illuminates a hidden side of the history of the novel: the dead body, she shows, helps the fledgling literary form confront its own controversial ability to entertain. Her close scrutiny of fictional corpses across the long eighteenth century reveals how the dead body functions as a test of the novel’s intentions, a chance for novelists to declare their allegiances in the battle between the didactic and the “merely” pleasurable.
The Doctor's Recreation Series: In the year 1800
Author: Charles Wells MoultonPublisher:
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales
Author: Patricia PulhamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351957104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In her persuasively argued study, Patricia Pulham astutely combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism to examine a selection of fantastic tales by the female aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935). Lee's own definition of the supernatural in the preface to Hauntings questions the nature of the 'genuine ghost', and argues that this figure is not found in the Society of Psychical Research but in our own psyches, where it functions as a mediator between past and present. Using D.W. Winnicott's 'transitional object' theory, which maintains that adults transfer their childhood engagement with toys to art and cultural artifacts, Pulham argues that the prevalence of the past in Lee's tales signifies not only an historical but a psychic past. Thus the 'ghosts' that haunt Lee's supernatural fiction, as well as her aesthetic, psychological, and historical writings, held complex meanings for her that were fundamental to her intellectual development and allowed her to explore alternative identities that permit the expression of transgressive sexualities.
The Doctor's Recreation Series
Author: Charles Wells MoultonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Recreation for the young and the old. An excursion to Brighton, with an account of the Royal pavilion: A visit t Tunbridge Wells; and A trip to Southend. In a series of letters
Author: John EvansRecreation for the Young and the Old. An excursion to Brighton, with an account of the Royal Pavilion, a visit to Tunbridge Wells, and a trip to Southend. In a series of letters, etc
Author: John EVANS (LL.D., of Islington.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation (Shortest History)
Author: David BakerPublisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 1891011359
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A wild—and satisfying!—ride through two billion years of sexual evolution. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex look like in the future? With acuity, humor, and respect for human diversity, The Shortest History of Sex reveals where the many facets of our sexuality—chemical, anatomical, behavioral, social—come from. Chasing down our evolutionary family tree, from the first aquatic creatures to primate societies, David Baker sheds light on our baffling array of passions, impulses, and fetishes, and guides us toward a clear understanding of one of the deepest, most abiding forces of human nature. The Shortest History of Sex also charts how sex changed for humans across the foraging, agrarian, and modern eras, showing how, even as our biology and sexual instincts have remained the same, the current nature of our sex lives has no historical or evolutionary precedent. The result is a revealing, utterly unique insight into history and human behavior—and the profound forces of nature and nurture compelling our most intimate relationships.
Exquisite Corpse
Author: Robert IrwinPublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468307746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This “off-beat, brisk and darkly comic” historical novel about an artist’s romantic obsession with his muse is “consistently clever and inventive.”(The New York Times) Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Robert Irwin’s cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination. At once a love story, a mystery, and an investigation into the ideas of surrealism, it concerns Casper, a mediocre surrealist painter living in London, who becomes passionately fixated on a woman so ordinary she appears exotic to him. Until she vanishes, leading Casper on an obsessive quest to find her that is more absurd than any piece of art he could imagine. “Irwin has fashioned a devilishly clever plot, masked it with an eccentric cast and a narrator of dubious authority, then enhanced the work with a prose style that is intelligent and crisp in its execution.” —Publishers Weekly “Intelligent and fraught with narcissistic musings, offbeat philosophies, Freudian analysis, hypnotism, and even an orgy, this book holds interest primarily through its central mystery and dizzying blur of fact and fiction.” —Library Journal “A picaresque nightmare, a sinister shell game, an addled odyssey along the graying edges of the psyche—Exquisite Corpse is all of these things.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Irwin's novel about English surrealism is funny and profound and hugely satisfying” —A. S. Byatt, Sunday Times