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The Dark Thread : From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales - John D. Lyons

The Dark Thread

From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

By: John D. Lyons (Editor), Hervé-Thomas Campangne, David LaGuardia, Timothy Chesters, Jocelyn Moore

eBook | 30 October 2019

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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 "high" and "low" 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.

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For scholars who wish to learn more about scientific marvels in the Gothic and the fantastique from the perspective of literature as a whole, this volume is an excellent point of departure. Because of its selections, its numerous bibliographical references, and its index, this volume can also handily serve as a source for a graduate course on the gothic genre in French or comparative literature and as a resource for instructors wishing to construct a course on a range of literary genres for a third- or fourth-year course.

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