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    The Dark Thread
    From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

    John D. Lyons (Edited by), Hervé-Thomas Campangne (Contributions by), David LaGuardia (Contributions by), Timothy Chesters (Contributions by), John D. Lyons (Contributions by), Kathleen Long (Contributions by), Marina S. Brownlee (Contributions by), Maria Tausiet (Contributions by), Michael Meere (Contributions by), Caroline Warman (Contributions by), Guy Spielmann (Contributions by), Philippe Roger (Contributions by), Alison Booth (Contributions by), Jennifer Tsien (Contributions by), Jocelyn Moore (Contributions by)

    9781644531631

    Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2019

    272 pages, 2
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.367 kg

    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.

    Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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