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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820221803321

Autore

Kremmel Laura R.

Titolo

Romantic medicine and the Gothic imagination : morbid anatomies / / Laura R. Kremmel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff : , : University of Wales Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9781786838506

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages)

Collana

Gothic Literary Studies

Disciplina

809.38729

Soggetti

Gothic revival (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Reanimated Corpses, Blood, and the Gothic Vital Element -- 2. Anaesthetic Skeletons and the Pain of Melancholy -- 3. Counterfeit Corpses and Evaded Dissection -- 4. The Devil and the Disability Narrative -- 5. Contagious Narratives and Gothic Vaccination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This book demonstrates how Gothic literature experiments with and subverts Romantic medical debates to reassess the power of nonnormative bodies within medical, social and political spheres, and to reallocate narrative agency to bodies typically silenced.