Victorian demons : medicine, masculinity and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle /

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 ideologic...

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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Smith, Andrew, 1964- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21996654
Оглавление:
  • Degeneration, masculinity, nationhood and the Gothic
  • Pathologising the gothic: the elephant man, the hysteric, the Indian and the doctor
  • The Whitechapel murders: journalism, gothic London, and the medical gaze
  • Reading syphilis: the politics of disease
  • Displacing masculinity: Sherlock Holmes, Count Dracula, and London
  • Performing masculinity: Wilde's art.