Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.
Contents:
'Sensation is [his] Frankenstein': Monomaniac obsessions in Basil, 'Mad Monkton' and The woman in white --The substance and the shadow: Invisibility and immateriality in Armadale -- 'My grave is waiting for me there': Physiological prisons in The Moonstone -- Transformation, epilepsy and late Victorian anxieties in Poor Miss Finch -- The shadows of the past: Digging out hidden memory in The Haunted Hotel -- Mad scientists: Jezebel's daughter and Heart and science -- The quest for knowledge in 'I say no' -- Born to kill: the Haunting Taint in The Legacy of Cain.
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