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

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 eightee...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019.
Series:Gothic literary studies.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.14491734
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Rattling Bones: The Skeleton in the Trunk; 2. The Chamber of Horrors: Anatomical Models and the Gothic; 3. Body-snatching; 4. The Pandemonium of Chimeras: The Medical Museum; 5. Death Misdiagnosed: Gothic Live Burials; Epilogue; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; Back Cover