Research Catalog

Title

The dark thread : from tragical histories to gothic tales / edited by John D. Lyons.

Publication

• Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Lyons, John D., 1946-

Description

vii, 257 pages : illustration, map; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

The early modern exchange

Uniform Title

Early modern exchange.

Subjects

• Family violence in literature
• Tragic, The, in literature > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre) > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In English, with French and Spanish passages accompanied by English translations.

Contents

The death of tragedy and the birth of the gothic / John D. Lyons -- Metamorphoses of the Histoires tragiques / Hervé-Thomas Campangne -- The real of the tragic tale in sixteenth-century France / David Laguardia -- Doubtful readings in Rosset, Nodier, and Potocki / Timothy Chesters and John D. Lyons -- The beauty of violence in Rosset and Barbey d'Aurevilly / Kathleen Long -- Solution and dissolution: Zayas's darkening threads / Marina S. Brownlee -- Evil mothers: from devouring witches to deadly ghosts / María Tausiet -- On specters and skulls: Rosamund and Alboin in seventeenth-century French tragedy / Michael Meere -- "Autre fait arrivé au château de Nicklspurg, en Moravie": Diderot and the horrid case study / Caroline Warman -- At the dark edge of enlightenment: early modern vampires / Guy Spielmann -- Darkness at noon: Sade's way to terror / Philippe Roger -- Anachronism, heterotopia, and gender in anglophone gothic / Alison Booth -- Inassimilable: gothic Francophobia in "The haunted house' in Royal Street" / Jennifer Tsien -- Houses that live and die from Greek tragedy to the gothic / Jocelyn Moore.

Call Number

JFE 20-6104

ISBN

• 9781644531624
• 1644531623
• 9781644531631 (canceled/invalid)
• 1644531631 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781644531648 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020288329

OCLC

1101503864

Title

The dark thread : from tragical histories to gothic tales / edited by John D. Lyons.

Publisher

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The early modern exchange

Early modern exchange.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

In English, with French and Spanish passages accompanied by English translations.

Added Author

Lyons, John D., 1946- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-6104