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Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences
played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. Diana Perez Edelman dissects Horace
Walpole's use of embryological concepts in the development of his
Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between
preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community. The book
then explores the ways in which Gothic literature can be read as
epigenetic in its focus on internally sourced modes of identity,
monstrosity, and endless narration. The chapters analyze Horace
Walpole's The Castle of Otranto; Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian
Romance, The Italian, and The Mysteries of Udolpho; Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein; Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer; and
James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, arguing that these
touchstones of the Gothic register why the Gothic emerged at that
time and why it continues today: the mysteries of reproduction
remain unsolved.
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