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Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel, 1st ed. 2021
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
Author: Edelman Diana Pérez
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Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel
Publication date: 07-2022
179 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 07-2022
179 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Paperback
Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel
Publication date: 07-2021
179 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 07-2021
179 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
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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.
1. Conceiving the Gothic; or, “A New Species of Romance”.- 2. “A very natural dream”; or, The Castle of Otranto.- 3. “The liberty of choice”; or, The Novels of Ann Radcliffe.- 4. “Dark, shapeless substances”; or, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.- 5. “Nature preached a milder theology”; Or, Melmoth the Wanderer.- 6. “Something scarcely tangible”; Or, James Hogg’s Confessions.- 7. Conclusion: Gothic Offspring; or, “the qualitas occulta”.
Diana Pérez Edelman is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Georgia, Gainesville, USA.
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, midwifery, and motherhood to incorporate the science of embryology
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