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- catalog abstract ""Susan J. Navarette examines the ways in which scientific and cultural concerns of late nineteenth-century England are coded in the horror literature of the period. By contextualizing the structural, stylistic, and thematic systems developed by writers seeking to reenact textually the entropic forces they perceived in the natural world, Navarette reconstructs the late Victorian mentalite. She analyzes aesthetic responses to trends in contemporary science and explores horror writers' use of scientific methodologies to support their perception that a long-awaited period of cultural decline had begun." "In her analysis of the classics Turn of the Screw and Heart of Darkness, Navarette shows how James and Conrad made artistic use of earlier "scientific" readings of the body. She also considers works by lesser-known authors Walter de la Mare, Vernon Lee, and Arthur Machen, who produced fin de siecle stories that took the form of "hybrid literary monstrosities.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10249606.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Susan J. Navarette examines the ways in which scientific and cultural concerns of late nineteenth-century England are coded in the horror literature of the period. By contextualizing the structural, stylistic, and thematic systems developed by writers seeking to reenact textually the entropic forces they perceived in the natural world, Navarette reconstructs the late Victorian mentalite. She analyzes aesthetic responses to trends in contemporary science and explores horror writers' use of scientific methodologies to support their perception that a long-awaited period of cultural decline had begun." "In her analysis of the classics Turn of the Screw and Heart of Darkness, Navarette shows how James and Conrad made artistic use of earlier "scientific" readings of the body. She also considers works by lesser-known authors Walter de la Mare, Vernon Lee, and Arthur Machen, who produced fin de siecle stories that took the form of "hybrid literary monstrosities.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Rictus Invictus -- 2. Walter de la Mare's "A: B: O. ": The Text for the Context -- 3. Unsealing Sense in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw -- 4. Articulating the Dead: Vernon Lee, Decadence, and "The Doll" -- 5. The Word Made Flesh: Protoplasmic Predications in Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan" -- 6. The Anatomy of Failure: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-298) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 314 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Shape of fear.".
- catalog identifier "0813120136 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Shape of fear.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog relation "Shape of fear.".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.087380908 21".
- catalog subject "Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness.".
- catalog subject "Decadence (Literary movement) England.".
- catalog subject "Degeneration in literature.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fear in literature.".
- catalog subject "Horror tales, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Human body in literature.".
- catalog subject "James, Henry, 1843-1916. Turn of the screw.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PR878.T3 N38 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Rictus Invictus -- 2. Walter de la Mare's "A: B: O. ": The Text for the Context -- 3. Unsealing Sense in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw -- 4. Articulating the Dead: Vernon Lee, Decadence, and "The Doll" -- 5. The Word Made Flesh: Protoplasmic Predications in Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan" -- 6. The Anatomy of Failure: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.".
- catalog title "The shape of fear : horror and the fin de siècle culture of decadence / Susan J. Navarette.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".