Gothic Remains - Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764-1897

Summary

Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764-1897 traces anatomical culture in Gothic texts from Horace Walpole to Bram Stoker, showing how the Gothic developed and evolved alongside the medical profession, and proposing a genealogy of some of the Gothic texts that marked the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Talairach
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781786834607
• ISBN: 978-1-78683-460-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Gothic Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Terror, Culture, Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Corpses, Literary studies: general, anatomical, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, remains, 1764–1897