"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"--
Critiques the boundary between Victorian studies and Irish studies and interrogates how nineteenth-century works involving reanimated bodies use undead figures to reimagine the past.
Acknowledgments
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Introduction Necromantic Victorians
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Chapter 1 How Frankenstein Got History
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Chapter 2 Dickensian Zombies in Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend
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Chapter 3 Robert Browning's Necropoetics
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Chapter 4 W. B. Yeats and the Necromantic Museum
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Chapter 5 Bram Stoker's Irish Mummy Gothic
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Epilogue The Undead Reader, or the Perils of Resuscitative Reading
