The Dark Thread: From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644531631
• ISBN13: 9781644531631
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"