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Gothic Remains
- Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764-1897
Engelsk Hardback
Gothic Remains
- Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764-1897
Engelsk Hardback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781786834607
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
178683460X
Udg. Dato:
15 okt 2019
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
279mm
Højde:
221mm
Forlag:
University of Wales Press
Oplagsdato:
15 okt 2019
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge