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The Dark Thread

From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales
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Description

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.

Author Biography:

John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia.
Release date Australia
October 30th, 2019
Contributors
  • Contributions by Caroline Warman
  • Contributions by David LaGuardia
  • Contributions by HervĂ©-Thomas Campangne
  • Contributions by John D. Lyons
  • Contributions by Kathleen Long
  • Contributions by Maria Tausiet
  • Contributions by Marina S Brownlee
  • Contributions by Michael Meere
  • Contributions by Timothy Chesters
  • Edited by John D. Lyons
Pages
272
Interest Age
From 16 to 99 years
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Primary & Secondary Education
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
2 (1 B&W, 1 B&W Map)
Dimensions
152x229x20
ISBN-13
9781644531631
Product ID
30616606

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