The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Fox, Renée
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Fox, Renée

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature

The Necromantics dwells on the literal afterlives of history. Reading the reanimated corpses--monstrous, metaphorical, and occasionally electrified--that...
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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Fox, Renée

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature

$250.85
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Fox, Renée

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature

$250.85
Author: Renée Fox
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Necromantics dwells on the literal afterlives of history. Reading the reanimated corpses--monstrous, metaphorical, and occasionally electrified--that Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W. B. Yeats, Bram Stoker, and others bring to life, Renée Fox argues that these undead figures embody the present's desire to remake the past in its own image. Fox positions "necromantic literature" at a nineteenth-century intersection between sentimental historiography, medical electricity, imperial gothic monsters, and the Irish Literary Revival, contending that these unghostly bodies resist critical assumptions about the always-haunting power of history.

By considering Irish Revival texts within the broader scope of nineteenth-century necromantic works, The Necromantics challenges Victorian studies' tendency to merge Irish and English national traditions into a single British whole, as well as Irish studies' postcolonial efforts to cordon off a distinct Irish canon. Fox thus forges new connections between conflicting political, formal, and historical traditions. In doing so, she proposes necromantic literature as a model for a contemporary reparative reading practice that can reanimate nineteenth-century texts with new aesthetic affinities, demonstrating that any effective act of reading will always be an effort of reanimation.



Author: Renée Fox
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 05/04/2023
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780814215494

About the Author
Renée Fox is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.


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