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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Renée FoxPublish date:2023-05-04Pages:300
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814215494ISBN-10:814215491UPC:9780814215494Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Modern, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Horror & SupernaturalBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.2721Product ID:SCZJ33DADE

Honorable Mention, American Council for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First BookThe Necromantics dwells on the literal afterlives of history. Reading the reanimated corpses-monstrous, metaphorical, and occasionally electrified-that Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W. B. Yeats, Bram Stoker, and others bring to life, Ren?e Fox argues that these undead figures embody the present's desire to remake the past in its own image. Fox positions "necromantic literature" at a nineteenth-century intersection between sentimental historiography, medical electricity, imperial gothic monsters, and the Irish Literary Revival, contending that these unghostly bodies resist critical assumptions about the always-haunting power of history. By considering Irish Revival texts within the broader scope of nineteenth-century necromantic works, The Necromantics challenges Victorian studies' tendency to merge Irish and English national traditions into a single British whole, as well as Irish studies' postcolonial efforts to cordon off a distinct Irish canon. Fox thus forges new connections between conflicting political, formal, and historical traditions. In doing so, she proposes necromantic literature as a model for a contemporary reparative reading practice that can reanimate nineteenth-century texts with new aesthetic affinities, demonstrating that any effective act of reading will always be an effort of reanimation.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814215494ISBN-10:814215491UPC:9780814215494Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Modern, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Horror & SupernaturalBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.2721Product ID:SCZJ33DADE
Renée Fox is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press

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