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Wilkie Collins, medicine, and the gothic / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas.

Author/creator Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
Descriptionx, 248 pages.
Subject(s)
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889--Criticism and interpretation.
Medicine in literature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.
Series Gothic literary studies
Gothic literary studies. ^A1011088
Contents 'Sensation is [his] Frankenstein': Monomaniac obsessions in Basil, 'Mad Monkton' and The woman in white --The substance and the shadow: Invisibility and immateriality in Armadale -- 'My grave is waiting for me there': Physiological prisons in The Moonstone -- Transformation, epilepsy and late Victorian anxieties in Poor Miss Finch -- The shadows of the past: Digging out hidden memory in The Haunted Hotel -- Mad scientists: Jezebel's daughter and Heart and science -- The quest for knowledge in 'I say no' -- Born to kill: the Haunting Taint in The Legacy of Cain.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.
ISBN9780708322239
ISBN0708322239
ISBN9780708322826 (e-book)
ISBN0708322824 (e-book)

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