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02694aam a2200373 i 4500 001 FBC1547A6B5711E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 141022s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014038791 020 $a 1137450320 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137450326 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)890756968 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d NKM $d COO $d MT4IT $d NLGGC $d IG# $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR830 T3 K36 2015 100 1 $a Karschay, Stephan, $d 1980- 245 10 $a Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Si©·cle / $c Stephan Karschay. 264 1 $a New York : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a ix, 295 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture 520 $a "This exciting new study looks at figures of degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de si©·cle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? When is a variation of the norm pronounced enough to qualify as 'pathological'? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal', and what happens if individuals find themselves on the 'wrong' side of the divide? Stephan Karschay addresses these questions through extensive readings of works by scientists such as Darwin, Lombroso, Maudsley, and Krafft-Ebing, and the most famous Gothic novels of R. L. Stevenson, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh, Oscar Wilde and Marie Corelli"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-288) and index. 505 80 $g 6. $t Conclusion. $g 2. $t Degeneration and the Victorian Sciences -- $g 3. $t Detecting the Degenerate: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan -- $g 4. $t Othering the Degenerate: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Richard Marsh's The Beetle -- $g 5. $t Normalising the Degenerate: Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan -- $g 6. $t Conclusion. 650 0 $a Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and science $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Degeneration in literature. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 830 0 $a Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021012826.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180703071820.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FBC1547A6B5711E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search