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"The sixteen critical essays in this collection examine the ways in which those suffering from mental and physical ailments were refigured as Other during the Gothic era, and how they were imagined to be monstrous. Together, the essays highlight the Gothic inclination to represent all ailments as visibly monstrous, such as mental illness, which were invisible"--Provided by publisher.
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Demons of the body and mind: essays on disability in gothic literature
2010, McFarland & Co., Publishers
in English
0786433221 9780786433223
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Table of Contents
Introduction: horrifying monsters: creating and disabling the discourse of difference in the gothic text / Ruth Bienstock Anolik
Part I. Monstrous deformity: the horrifying spectacle of difference
A space, a place: visions of a disabled community in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the last man / Paul Marchbanks
"Colossal vices" and "terrible deformities" in George Lippard's gothic nightmare / Cynthia Hall
Ominous signs or false clues? difference and deformity in Wilkie Collins's sensation novels / Tamara S. Wagner
George Eliot's sickly scholar: gothic husband and gothic monster in Middlemarch / Elizabeth Hale
Folk medicine, cunning-men and superstition in Thomas Hardy's "The withered arm" / Simon J. White
Lucas Malet's subversive late-gothic: humanizing the monster in The history of Sir Richard Calmady / Catherine Delyfer
Encounters with the monster: self-haunting in Virginia Woolf's "Street haunting" / Tara Surry
Part II. Visible specters: horrifying representations of invisible pathology
Revising Ophelia: representing madwomen in Baillie's Orra and witchcraft / Melissa Wehler
The case of the malnourished vampyre: the perils of passion in John Cleland's Memoirs of a coxcomb / Carolyn D. Williams
"The monster vice": masturbation, malady, and monstrosity in Frankenstein / Christine M. Crockett
Invasion and contagion: the spectacle of the diseased Indian in Poe's "The masque of the red death" / Ruth Bienstock Anolik
Knights of the seal: mad doctors and maniacs in A.J.H. Duganne's romance of reform / Lisa M. Hermsen
"The secret of my mother's madness": Mary Elizabeth Braddon and gothic instability / Carla T. Kungl
Don't look now: disguised danger and disabled women in Daphne du Maurier's macabre tales / Maria Purves
Deviled eggs: teratogenesis and the gynecological gothic in the cinema of monstrous birth / Andrew Scahill
"Journeys into lands of silence": the wasp factory and mental disorder / Martyn Colebroo.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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