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UNINA9910459154803321 |
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Talairach-Vielmas Laurence |
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Titolo |
Wilkie Collins, medicine and the gothic / / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas |
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Cardiff, [England] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-20054-0 |
0-7083-2282-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medicine in literature |
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgements; Introduction:'A creepy sensation down the spine'; 'Sensation is [his] Frankenstein':Monomaniac Obsessions in Basil,'Mad Monkton' and The Woman in White; The Substance and the Shadow: Invisibility and Immateriality in Armadale; 'My grave is waiting for me there': Physiological Prisons in The Moonstone; Transformation, Epilepsy and Late Victorian Anxieties in Poor Miss Finch; The Shadows of the Past:Digging Out Hidden Memory in The Haunted Hotel; Mad Scientists: Jezebel's Daughter and Heart and Science; The Quest for Knowledge in 'I Say No' |
Born To Kill: the Haunting Taint in The Legacy of Cain |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 1880's. |
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