| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Manchester Gothic |
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Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England)
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 battlefield trench. It demonstrates how the Gothic corpus is haunted by a tangible sense of corporeality, often at its most visceral |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 30, 2015) |
| Subject |
Human body in literature -- History and criticism
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- Social aspects
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- Psychology
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Analogy in literature -- Social aspects
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Horror tales, English -- History and criticism
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in Literature
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Human Body
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Body Image -- psychology
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Physical Appearance, Body
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Literary Studies: General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Medicine in literature
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Horror tales, English
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Human body in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015298671 |
| ISBN |
9781784996758 |
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1784996750 |
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9781526104045 |
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1526104040 |
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9781784996130 |
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1784996130 |
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