Wilkie Collins, medicine and the gothic / / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
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| Autore: |
Talairach-Vielmas Laurence
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| Titolo: |
Wilkie Collins, medicine and the gothic / / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
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| Pubblicazione: | Cardiff, [England] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2009 |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medicine in literature |
| Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English - History and criticism | |
| Medicine in Literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Wilkie Collins, medicine and the Gothic |
| ISBN: | 1-299-20054-0 |
| 0-7083-2282-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910792434403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Gothic literary studies.