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Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (Hardcover, New): Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (Hardcover, New)

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

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.

General

Imprint: University Of Wales Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
Release date: September 2009
First published: 2009
Authors: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2223-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN: 0-7083-2223-9
Barcode: 9780708322239

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