Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic.
This book examines how Wilkie Collins's interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s.
| Основен автор: | Talairach-Vielmas, L. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2009.
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| Серия: |
Gothic literary studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=571994 |
Съдържание:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction:'A creepy sensation down the spine'; 'Sensation is [his] Frankenstein':MonomaniacObsessions in Basil, 'Mad Monkton' andTheWoman inWhite; The Substance and the Shadow: Invisibility andImmateriality in Armadale; 'My grave is waiting for me there': PhysiologicalPrisons in The Moonstone; Transformation, Epilepsy and LateVictorianAnxieties in Poor Miss Finch; The Shadows of the Past:Digging Out HiddenMemory in The Haunted Hotel; Mad Scientists: Jezebel's Daughter andHeart and Science; The Quest for Knowledge in 'I Say No'
- BornTo Kill: the HauntingTaint in The Legacyof Cain.