The dark thread : from tragical histories to gothic tales

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Label

The dark thread : from tragical histories to gothic tales

Title remainder

from tragical histories to gothic tales

Statement of responsibility

edited by John D. Lyons

Contributor

• Lyons, John D., 1946-

Editor

• Lyons, John D., 1946-

Subject

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

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books

Language

• eng
• fre
• fre
• spa
• spa
• eng

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

Member of

• Early modern exchange

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

809.9162

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Language note

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

LC call number

PN56.T68

LC item number

D37 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The early modern exchange