Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic.
Talairach-Vielmas, L.
Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (260 pages) - Gothic Literary Studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780708322826
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 --Criticism and interpretation.
Medicine in literature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PR4498 / .W555 2009
Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (260 pages) - Gothic Literary Studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780708322826
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 --Criticism and interpretation.
Medicine in literature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PR4498 / .W555 2009