02743nam 2200625 450 991045915480332120200520144314.01-299-20054-00-7083-2282-4(CKB)2670000000013944(EBL)496660(OCoLC)609859560(SSID)ssj0000367599(PQKBManifestationID)12137612(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000367599(PQKBWorkID)10312026(PQKB)10916862(MiAaPQ)EBC1889029(MiAaPQ)EBC496660(Au-PeEL)EBL1889029(CaPaEBR)ebr10633948(CaONFJC)MIL451304(EXLCZ)99267000000001394420151112h20092009 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrWilkie Collins, medicine and the gothic /Laurence Talairach-VielmasCardiff, [England] :University of Wales Press,2009.©20091 online resource (260 p.)Gothic Literary StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7083-2223-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 CainThis 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.Gothic literary studies.Medicine in literatureGothic fiction (Literary genre), EnglishHistory and criticismElectronic books.Medicine in literature.Gothic fiction (Literary genre), EnglishHistory and criticism.823.8Talairach-Vielmas Laurence608399MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459154803321Wilkie Collins, medicine and the Gothic1110094UNINA