Format:
1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0708322239
,
0708322824
,
1299200540
,
9780708322239
,
9780708322826
,
9781299200548
Series Statement:
Gothic Literary Studies
Content:
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
Content:
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'
Content:
BornTo Kill: the HauntingTaint in The Legacyof Cain
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780708322239
Language:
English
