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Wilkie Collins, medicine and the gothic / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas.
Van Pelt Library PR4498.M4 T35 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence.
- Series:
- Gothic literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889--Criticism and interpretation.
- Collins, Wilkie.
- Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
- Medicine in literature.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- x, 248 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- '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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780708322239
- 0708322239
- OCLC:
- 318874112
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