LEADER 05388nam 22007815 450 001 9910488700603321 005 20240701110656.0 010 $a9783030736484 010 $a3030736482 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-73648-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011979649 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6676427 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6676427 035 $a(OCoLC)1260346036 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-73648-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011979649 100 $a20210702d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEmbryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel /$fby Diana Pérez Edelman 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (187 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 311 08$a9783030736477 311 08$a3030736474 327 $a1. Conceiving the Gothic; or, "A New Species of Romance" -- 2. "A very natural dream"; or, The Castle of Otranto -- 3. "The liberty of choice"; or, The Novels of Ann Radcliffe -- 4. "Dark, shapeless substances"; or, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- 5. "Nature preached a milder theology"; Or, Melmoth the Wanderer -- 6. "Something scarcely tangible"; Or, James Hogg's Confessions -- 7. Conclusion: Gothic Offspring; or, "the qualitas occulta". 330 $a"Foregrounding some of the most canonical and widely studied Gothic and Romantic texts, offering readings that are at once vibrant and new while still somehow familiar in the best possible way, Edelman makes it clear just how fundamental a concern with generation is to any understanding of the period. This work is deeply learned and wonderfully accessible-and profoundly urgent." -James Robert Allard, Brock University, Canada, and author of Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body (2007) "Edelman argues that contemporary theories of embryology (not yet an empirical science) debate often contradictory concerns about origins, identity, hybridity, and the potential for an infinite number of forms. Gothic narratives express similar anxieties, adapting to popular and high art, changing historical circumstances, and media unimaginable at their birth. Reading the evolution of Gothic in the context of inherently contradictory theories of embryology illuminates the literature's own contradictions. (Is it conservative or revolutionary? Feminist or misogynist?) Edelman's learned and cogent exposition of this unexpected biological context will engage not only students of the Gothic tradition, but also the growing audience discovering the material and scientific roots of Romanticism." -Anne Williams, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Georgia, USA, and author of Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic (1995) This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Pérez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole's use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community. The book then explores the ways in which Gothic literature can be read as epigenetic in its focus on internally sourced modes of identity, monstrosity, and endless narration. The chapters analyze Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto; Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance, The Italian, and The Mysteries of Udolpho; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer; and James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, arguing that these touchstones of the Gothic register why the Gothic emerged at that time and why it continues today: the mysteries of reproduction remain unsolved. Diana Pérez Edelman is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Georgia, Gainesville, USA. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aFeminism and literature 606 $aGoth culture (Subculture) 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aMedicine and the humanities 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aFeminist Literary Theory 606 $aGothic Studies 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aMedical Humanities 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aFeminism and literature. 615 0$aGoth culture (Subculture) 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aMedicine and the humanities. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aFeminist Literary Theory. 615 24$aGothic Studies. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aMedical Humanities. 676 $a823.0872909 676 $a823.087290906 700 $aEdelman$b Diana Perez$0853080 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910488700603321 996 $aEmbryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel$91904928 997 $aUNINA