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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):
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre).
- Goth culture (Subculture).
- Horror in literature.
- Horror films.
- Human body in literature.
- Human body in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781784996130
- 1784996130
- 9781526104045
- 1526104040
- 9781784996758
- 1784996750
- OCLC:
- 935259065
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