Book ID: CBB210626437

Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764–1897 (2020)

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Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence (Author)


University of Wales Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 320
Language: English

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 that 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 misdiagnoses and pointing to contemporary research into the signs of death. The historicist reading of canonical and less-known Gothic texts 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.

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Authors & Contributors
Dawn Kaczmar
Borgo, Melania
Tinne Claes
Wilson, Steven
David Clark
Dam, Beatrix van,
Concepts
Medicine and culture
Death
Anatomy
Medicine
Human body
Autopsy
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
16th century
21st century
Places
France
Great Britain
United States
Germany
Europe
Oxford (England)
Institutions
Museo della Specola, Florence
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