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Dangerous Bodies - Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (Paperback)
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Dangerous Bodies - Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (Paperback)
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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
provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film
texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein,
Dracula and Nosferatu. This collection of dangerous bodies is
traced back to the effects of the English Reformation, Spanish
Inquisition, French Revolution, Caribbean slavery, Victorian
medical malpractice, European anti-Semitism and finally warfare.
The endangered or dangerous body lies at the centre of the clash
between victim and persecutor and has generated tales of terror and
narratives of horror, which function to either salve, purge or
dangerously perpetuate such oppositions. -- .
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