Inventing the Gothic Corpse

Yael Shapira is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Her work has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Life, Narrative, Women’s Writing and elsewhere. Her current research focuses on the forgotten Gothic novels of the Minerva Press in the Romantic period.

• 1. Introduction: The Novel, the Corpse, and the Eighteenth-Century Marketplace.- 2. Spectacles for Sale: Reframing the Didactic Corpse in Behn and Defoe.- 3. Fictional Corpses at Mid-Century: Richardson, Fielding, and the Trouble with Hamlet.- 4. Death, Delicacy and the Novel: The Corpse in Women's Gothic Fiction.- 5. Shamelessly Gothic: Enjoying the Corpse in The Monk and Zofloya.- 6. Conclusion: Remains to Be Seen.