Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture 1764-1897 - Couverture rigide

Talairach, Laurence

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ISBN 10 : 178683460X ISBN 13 : 9781786834607

Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2019

Synopsis

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. Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764-1897 offers an exploration of those Gothic tropes and conventions that 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 misdiagnoses and pointing to contemporary research into the signs of death.　The historicist reading of canonical and less-known Gothic texts proposed throughout Gothic Remains, explored through the prism of anatomy, seeks to offer new insights into the ways in which medical practice and the medical sciences informed the aesthetics of pain and death typically read therein, and the two-way traffic that emerged between medical literature and literary texts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Laurence Talairach is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaures, and associate researcher at the Alexandre Koyre Centre for the History of Science and Technology (UMR 8560). Her research specialises on the interrelations between nineteenth-century literature, medicine and science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wales Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178683460X
• ISBN 13: 9781786834607
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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