The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with
them a sense of horror - the decomposing body, the rigid corpse,
the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton - capable of creating a
sublime form of beauty. Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and
Anatomical Culture, 1764-1897 offers an exploration of those Gothic
tropes and conventions which were most thoroughly steeped in the
anatomical culture of the period - from skeletons, used to
understand human anatomy, to pathological human remains exhibited
in medical museums; from bodysnatching aimed at providing
dissection subjects to live-burials resulting from medical
misdiagnosis and pointing to contemporary research into the signs
of death. The historicist reading of canonical and less known
Gothic texts which is proposed throughout Gothic Remains, explored
through the prism of anatomy, seeks to offer new insights into the
ways in which medical practice and the medical sciences informed
the aesthetics of pain and death typically read therein, and the
two-way traffic that emerged between medical literature and
literary texts.
General
Imprint: |
University Of Wales Press
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2019 |
First published: |
2019 |
Authors: |
Laurence Talairach
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Dimensions: |
216 x 138 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78683-460-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-78683-460-X |
Barcode: |
9781786834607 |
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