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Author:

Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence, author.

Title:

Gothic remains : corpses, terror and anatomical culture, 1764-1897 / by Laurence Talairach.

Publisher:

University of Wales Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xiii, 290 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

1700-1899
Human body in literature.
Human dissection in literature.
Human anatomy in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Dead in literature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Medicine in Literature.
Cadaver.
Dissection--history.
Dissection--psychology.
Burial--history.
History, 18th Century.
History, 19th Century.
Medicine in literature.
Human dissection in literature.
Human body in literature.
Human anatomy in literature.
Dead in literature.
English literature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-282) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Rattling bones : the skeleton in the trunk -- The chamber of horrors : anatomical models and the Gothic -- Body-snatching -- The pandemonium of chimeras : the medical museum -- Death misdiagnosed : Gothic live burials -- Epilogue.

Summary:

"The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror-- the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton-- capable of creating a sublime form of beauty. This book offers an exploration of those Gothic tropes and conventions which were most thoroughly steeped in the anatomical culture of the period-- from skeletons, used to understand human anatomy, to pathological human remains exhibited in medical museums; from bodysnatching aimed at providing dissection subjects to live-burials resulting from medical misdiagnosis and pointing to contemporary research into the signs of death"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Gothic literary studies

ISBN:

178683460X
9781786834607

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1088921302

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)