Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-260) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Necromantic Victorians -- How Frankenstein got history -- Dickensian zombies in Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend -- Robert Browning's necropoetics -- W.B. Yeats and the necromantic museum -- Bram Stoker's Irish mummy gothic -- Epilogue: The undead reader, or the perils of resuscitative reading.
Summary:
"Critiques the boundary between Victorian studies and Irish studies and interrogates how Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, and Bram Stoker leveraged reanimated bodies in their work to reimagine the past"-- Provided by publisher.
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