{"product_id":"inventing-the-gothic-corpse-yael-shapira-9783319764832","title":"Inventing the Gothic Corpse: The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventing the Gothic Corpse\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yael Shapira\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3319764837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783319764832\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d","brand":"Yael Shapira","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44201972859135,"sku":"9783319764832","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b704be8-9f55-4cb1-8397-74cb8cd24db2.jpg?v=1691492494","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventing-the-gothic-corpse-yael-shapira-9783319764832","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}