TY  - BOOK
AU  - Talairach-Vielmas,L.
TI  - Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
T2  - Gothic Literary Studies
SN  - 9780708322826
AV  - PR4498 .W555 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cardiff
PB  - University of Wales Press
KW  - Collins, Wilkie,
KW  - Medicine in literature
KW  - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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