TY  - GEN
T1  - Victorian demons : medicine, masculinity and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle
A1  - Smith, Andrew, 1964-
LA  - English
PP  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1233303819
AB  - Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siècle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto been understood, and makes a significant contribution to Gothic scholarship.Andrew Smith demonstrates how a Gothic language of monstrosity, drawn from narratives such as 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Dracula', increasingly influenced a range of medical and cultural contexts, destabilising these apparently dominant masculine scripts. He provides a coherent analysis of a range of examples relating to masculinity drawn from literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts, including Joseph Merrick ('The Elephant Man'), the Whitechapel murders of 1888, Sherlock Holmes's London, the writings and trials of Oscar Wilde, theories of degeneration and medical textbooks on syphilis.
OP  - 200
CN  - PR468.M42
SN  - 9781526125576
SN  - 1526125579
SN  - 9780719063565
KW  - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Medicine in literature.
KW  - Literature and medicine : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - Gothic revival (Literature) : Great Britain.
KW  - Masculinity in literature.
KW  - Demonology in literature.
KW  - Diseases in literature.
KW  - Men in literature.
KW  - Diseases.
KW  - Gender identity.
KW  - Medicine : History.
KW  - Men.
KW  - Gothic fiction (Literary genre) : Great Britain.
KW  - Disease
KW  - Medicine in Literature
KW  - Gender Identity
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - Men
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Médecine dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature et médecine : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Roman gothique : Grande-Bretagne.
KW  - Masculinité dans la littérature.
KW  - Démonologie dans la littérature.
KW  - Maladies dans la littérature.
KW  - Hommes dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature frénétique : Grande-Bretagne.
KW  - Identité de genre.
KW  - Médecine : Histoire.
KW  - Médecine : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Maladies.
KW  - Hommes.
KW  - sex role.
KW  - history of medicine.
KW  - men (male humans)
KW  - Literature.
KW  - Literary Theory.
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Demonology in literature
KW  - Diseases in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - Gothic revival (Literature)
KW  - Literature and medicine
KW  - Masculinity in literature
KW  - Medicine in literature
KW  - Men in literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Krankheit : Motiv
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Männlichkeit : Motiv
KW  - Mannelijkheid.
KW  - Medische aspecten.
KW  - Culturele aspecten.
KW  - Gothic novel.
KW  - Victoriaanse tijd.
KW  - Englisch.
KW  - Anthologies : general : Literary theory.
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -