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Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (Hardcover, New)
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Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (Hardcover, New)
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
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This book examines how Wilkie Collins's interest in medical matters
developed in his writing through explorations of his revisions of
the late eighteenth century Gothic novel, from his first sensation
novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Throughout his career,
Collins made changes in the prototypical Gothic scenario. The
aristocratic villains, victimized maidens and medieval castles of
classic Gothic tales were reworked and adapted to thrill his
Victorian readership. With the advances of neuroscience and the
development of criminology as a significant backdrop to most of his
novels, Collins drew upon contemporary anxieties and used the
medical more and more to propel his criminal plots. While the
archetypal castles were turned into modern medical institutions,
his heroines no longer feared ghosts but the scientist's knife.
This study underlines the way in which Collins's Gothic adaptations
increasingly tackled medical questions, using the medical terrain
to capitalize on the readers' fears. It demonstrates how Wilkie
Collins's fiction revised Gothic themes and presented them through
the prism of contemporary scientific, medical and psychological
discourses, from debates revolving around mental physiology to
those dealing with heredity and transmission. The book's structure
is chronological, covering a selection of texts in each chapter;
with a balance between discussion of the more canonical of
Collins's texts, such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone and
Armadale, and some of his more neglected writings.
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