Wilkie Collins, medicine and the gothic / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence, author.

Series:

Gothic literary studies.

Gothic Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine in literature.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889--Criticism and interpretation.

Collins, Wilkie.

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.

Medicine in Literature.

Medical Subjects:

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.

Medicine in Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, [England] : University of Wales Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 12, 2015).

ISBN:

1-299-20054-0

0-7083-2282-4

OCLC:

609859560