Wilkie Collins, medicine, and the gothic /

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Author / Creator:Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence.
Imprint:Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
Description:x, 248 p.; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Gothic literary studies
Gothic literary studies.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7899669
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ISBN:9780708322239
0708322239
9780708322826 (e-book)
0708322824 (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.
Table of 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.