{"product_id":"necromantics-book-rene-fox-9780814215494","title":"The Necromantics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, American Council for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Necromantics\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003edwells 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, Ren e 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. By 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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52680143798545,"sku":"NLS9780814215494","price":70.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52902316212497,"sku":"CIN0814215491LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780814215494.jpg?v=1772103752","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/necromantics-book-rene-fox-9780814215494","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}