| Description |
1 online resource (260 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Gothic Literary Studies
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Gothic literary studies.
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| Contents |
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' |
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BornTo Kill: the HauntingTaint in The Legacyof Cain. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. |
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in literature. |
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- History and criticism.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780708322239 |
| ISBN |
9780708322826 (electronic book) |
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0708322824 (electronic book) |
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1299200540 (e-book) |
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9781299200548 (e-book) |
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9780708322239 |
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0708322239 (Trade Cloth) |
| Standard No. |
9780708322239 |
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