This exciting new series will appeal to the worldwide Gothic studies market. The field of Gothic literature is the subject of a significant level of research in universities around the globe, in addition to being a popular undergraduate option.
Series editors: Professor Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan; Professor Benjamin Fisher, University of Mississippi.
Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
approx. pp 272 216x138mm September 2009
Hardback
978-0-7083-2223-9
This book examines how Wilkie Collins's interest in medical matters developed in his writing by exploring his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel. Throughout his career, Collins made changes in the prototypical Gothic scenario and classic tales were reworked and adapted to thrill his Victorian readership. With the advances of neuroscience and the development of criminology as a significant backdrop to most of his novels, Collins drew upon contemporary anxieties and increasingly used the medical to propel his criminal plots.
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Toulouse (University Toulouse-Le Mirail), France.