Dangerous bodies : historicising the gothic corporeal / Marie Mulvey-Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulvey Roberts, Marie, Author.

Series:

Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England).

Manchester Gothic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature--History and criticism.

Human body in literature.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--Social aspects.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--Psychology.

Analogy in literature--Social aspects.

Analogy in literature.

Horror tales, English--History and criticism.

Horror tales, English.

Medicine in Literature.

Human Body.

Body Image--psychology.

Physical Appearance, Body.

Medical Subjects:

Medicine in Literature.

Human Body.

Body Image--psychology.

Physical Appearance, Body.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (black & white); digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, 'Dangerous Bodies' reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. It demonstrates how the Gothic corpus is haunted by a tangible sense of corporeality, often at its most visceral.

Contents:

Catholicism, the Gothic and the bleeding body

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and slavery

Death by orgasm: sexual surgery and Dracula

Nazis, Jews and Nosferatu

The vampire of war

Conclusion: conflict Gothic.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781784996130

1784996130

9781526104045

1526104040

9781784996758

1784996750

OCLC:

935259065