Dangerous bodies : historicising the gothic corporeal /

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Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, 'Dangerous Bodies' reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mulvey Roberts, Marie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Colección:Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England)
Temas:
Human body in literature > History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) > Social aspects.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) > Psychology.
Analogy in literature > Social aspects.
Horror tales, English > History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine in Literature
Human Body
Body Image > psychology
Physical Appearance, Body
Corps humain dans la littérature > Histoire et critique.
Analogie (Philosophie) dans la littérature > Aspect social.
Récits d'horreur anglais > Histoire et critique.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Literary Studies: General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Medicine in literature
Horror tales, English
Human body in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Catholicism, the Gothic and the bleeding body
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and slavery
  • Death by orgasm: sexual surgery and Dracula
  • Nazis, Jews and Nosferatu
  • The vampire of war
  • Conclusion: conflict Gothic.

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