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Dangerous bodies : historicising the gothic corporeal /

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)
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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.