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Gothic Renaissance

A reassessment

von: Elisabeth Bronfen, Beate Neumeier
32,99 €
Verlag:	Manchester University Press
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	16.05.2016
ISBN/EAN:	9781526111142
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	272

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Titelbeschreibung

This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance. The texts covered encompass poetry, epic narratives, ghost stories, prose dialogues, political pamphlets and Shakespeare's texts, read alongside those of other playwrights. The authors show that the Gothic sensibility addresses subversive fantasies of transgression, be this in regard to gender (troubling stable notions of masculinity and femininity), in regard to social orders (challenging hegemonic, patriarchal or sovereign power), or in regard to disciplinary discourses (dictating what is deemed licit and what illicit or deviant). They relate these issues back to the early modern period as a moment of transition, in which categories of individual, gendered, racial and national identity began to emerge, and connect the religious and the pictorial turn within early modern textual production to a reassessment of Gothic culture.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier Part I: Shakesperean hauntings 1.Yorick’s skull – John Drakakis 2. Beyond reason: Hamlet and early modern stage ghosts – Catherine Belsey 3. ‘What do I fear? myself?’: nightmares, conscience and the ‘gothic’ self in Richard III – Per Sivefors 4. Queen Margaret’s haunting revenge: the gothic legacy of Shakespeare’s War of the Roses – Elisabeth Bronfen Part II: Renaissance theatre 5. Vision and desire: fantastic Renaissance spectacles – Beate Neumeier 6. From grotesque to gothic: Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queenes – Lynn Meskill Part III: Gothic textuality in the early modern period 7. Exhumations: scopophobia in Renaissance texts – Duncan Salkeld 8. Bright hair and brittle bones. Gothic affinities in metaphysical poetry – Ulrike Zimmermann 9. Vampirism in the bower of bliss – Garrett Sullivan 10. Ghostly authorities and the British popular press – Andrea Brady Part IV: Persistence of the gothic 11. Monstrous to our human reason. Minding the gap In The Winter’s Tale – Richard Wilson 12. Shakespeare, Ossian and the problem of ‘scottish gothic’ – Dale Townshend 13. The rage of Caliban. Dorian Gray and the gothic body – Andreas Höfele Index

Autorenportrait

Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich Beate Neumeier is Professor of English Studies at the University of Cologne

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This collection of scholarly essays aims to reappraise the vibrant connection between a Gothic sensibility and the discursive network of the Renaissance. The texts covered encompass poetry, epic narratives, ghost stories, prose dialogues, political pamphlets and Shakespeare's texts, read alongside those of other playwrights. The authors show that the Gothic sensibility addresses subversive fantasies of transgression, be this in regard to gender (troubling stable notions of masculinity and femininity), in regard to social orders (challenging hegemonic, patriarchal or sovereign power), or in regard to disciplinary discourses (dictating what is deemed licit and what illicit or deviant). They relate these issues back to the early modern period as a moment of transition, in which categories of individual, gendered, racial and national identity began to emerge, and connect the religious and the pictorial turn within early modern textual production to a reassessment of Gothic culture. Through analysis of a wide range of genres and writers, Gothic Renaissance isolates distinct but interrelated links between the early modern cultural imaginary and Gothic sensibility, and will appeal to academics and students of Gothic Studies, Victorian literature, and Early Modern drama and poetry.