Talairach-Vielmas, L. <br/><br/>
Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic. 

 - Cardiff :  University of Wales Press,  (c)2009. 
 - 1 online resource (260 pages) 
 - Gothic Literary Studies .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780708322826 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medicine in literature.<br/>Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR4498  / .W555 2009