Gothic Remains by Laurence Talairach
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 which 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 misdiagnosis and pointing to contemporary research into the signs of death. The historicist reading of canonical and less known Gothic texts which is 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.-
History of the Gothic: American Gothic
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824
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The Queer Uncanny
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914
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Welsh Gothic
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Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
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History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic
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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
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Theological Monsters
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Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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The Gothic Ideology
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Metamodern Gothic
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Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism
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The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture
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Gothic Utterance
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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Posthuman Gothic
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Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
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Body Gothic
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The Twilight of the Gothic?
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The Fantastic and European Gothic
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Gothic Invasions
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Stephen King's Gothic
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The Gothic and Catholicism
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Republicanism and the American Gothic
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Shakespearean Gothic
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George Eliot and the Gothic Novel
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Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797-1830
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Gothic Metaphysics
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Gothic Contemporaries
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The Brontës as Gothic Writers
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The Gothic at War
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Gothic Metis
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Gothic Precarity
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781786834607 |
| ISBN 10 | 178683460X |
| Title | Gothic Remains |
| Author | Laurence Talairach |
| Series | Gothic Literary Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press |
| Year published | 2019-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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