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1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
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ISBN:
0708322239
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0708322824
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1299200540
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9780708322239
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9780708322826
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9781299200548
Serie:
Gothic Literary Studies
Inhalt:
This book examines how Wilkie Collins's interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s
Inhalt:
Acknowledgements; Introduction:'A creepy sensation down the spine'; 'Sensation is [his] Frankenstein':MonomaniacObsessions in Basil, 'Mad Monkton' andTheWoman inWhite; The Substance and the Shadow: Invisibility andImmateriality in Armadale; 'My grave is waiting for me there': PhysiologicalPrisons in The Moonstone; Transformation, Epilepsy and LateVictorianAnxieties in Poor Miss Finch; The Shadows of the Past:Digging Out HiddenMemory in The Haunted Hotel; Mad Scientists: Jezebel's Daughter andHeart and Science; The Quest for Knowledge in 'I Say No'
Inhalt:
BornTo Kill: the HauntingTaint in The Legacyof Cain
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index
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English
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Englisch
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