书目名称 | Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel |
编辑 | Diana Pérez Edelman |
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概述 | Provides analysis of both literary and medical texts.Offers a new understanding of the Gothic and Romanticism and the development of these genres.Extends history of medicine research beyond obstetrics |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
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描述 | This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Pérez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole’s use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community. The book then explores the ways in which Gothic literature can be read as epigenetic in its focus on internally sourced modes of identity, monstrosity, and endless narration. The chapters analyze Horace Walpole’s .The Castle of Otranto.; Ann Radcliffe’s .A Sicilian Romance., .The Italian., and .The Mysteries of Udolpho.; Mary Shelley’s .Frankenstein.; Charles Robert Maturin’s .Melmoth the Wanderer.; and James Hogg’s .Confessions of a Justified Sinner., arguing that these touchstones of the Gothic register .why. the Gothic emerged at that time and .why. it continues today: the mysteries of reproduction remain unsolved. |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | Literature, Science and Medicine Studies; Romanticism; preformantionist; epigenetics; embryology; genre; h |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73648-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-73650-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-73648-4Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 |
issn_series | 2634-6435 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |