{"product_id":"the-necromantics-reanimation-the-historical-imagination-and-victorian-british-and-irish-literature-hardcover","title":"The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRenée Fox\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Necromantics\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy considering Irish Revival texts within the broader scope of nineteenth-century necromantic works, \u003ci\u003eThe Necromantics\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenée Fox is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130605736071,"sku":"9780814215494","price":125.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/0208822ad5b7f0e4f9bcef8dd86a7a32.webp?v=1732612262","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-necromantics-reanimation-the-historical-imagination-and-victorian-british-and-irish-literature-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}