Victorian demons : medicine, masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle / Andrew Smith.

Author/creator Smith, Andrew, 1964-
Format Book
Publication InfoManchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004.
Description191 pages ; 23 cm
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Subjects

Contents Degeneration, masculinity, nationhood and the Gothic -- Pathologising the gothic: the elephant man, the hysteric, the Indian and the doctor -- The Whitechapel murders: journalism, gothic London, and the medical gaze -- Reading syphilis: the politics of disease -- Displacing masculinity: Sherlock Holmes, Count Dracula, and London -- Performing masculinity: Wilde's art.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [182]-188) and index.
LCCN 2004426530
ISBN0719063566
ISBN0719063574 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PR468.M42 S65 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold