The Gothic mode, typically preoccupied by questions of difference and otherness, consistently imagines the Other as a source of grotesque horror. The sixteen critical essays in this collection examine the ways in which those suffering from mental and physical ailments are refigured as Other, and how they are imagined to be monstrous. Together, the essays highlight the Gothic inclination to represent all ailments as visibly monstrous, even those, such as mental illness, which were invisible. Paradoxically, the Other also becomes a pitiful figure, often evoking empathy. This exploration of…mehr
The Gothic mode, typically preoccupied by questions of difference and otherness, consistently imagines the Other as a source of grotesque horror. The sixteen critical essays in this collection examine the ways in which those suffering from mental and physical ailments are refigured as Other, and how they are imagined to be monstrous. Together, the essays highlight the Gothic inclination to represent all ailments as visibly monstrous, even those, such as mental illness, which were invisible. Paradoxically, the Other also becomes a pitiful figure, often evoking empathy. This exploration of illness and disability represents a strong addition to Gothic studies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ruth Bienstock Anolik teaches at Villanova University and writes extensively on the Gothic mode. Her articles have been published in Modern Language Studies, Studies in Jewish Literature,, and other journals and collections.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Diagnosing Demons: Creating and Disabling the Discourse of Difference in the Gothic Text RUTH BIENSTOCK ANOLIK PART I: MONSTROUS DEFORMITY: THE HORRIFYING SPECTACLE OF DIFFERENCE A Space, a Place: Visions of a Disabled Community in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Last Man PAUL MARCHBANKS "Colossal Vices" and "Terrible Deformities" in George Lippard's Gothic Nightmare CYNTHIA HALL Ominous Signs or False Clues? Difference and Deformity in Wilkie Collins's Sensation Novels TAMARA S. WAGNER The Dangerous Mr. Casaubon: Gothic Husband and Gothic Monster in Middlemarch ELIZABETH HALE Folk Medicine, Cunning-Men and Superstition in Thomas Hardy's "The Withered Arm" SIMON J. WHITE Lucas Malet's Subversive Late-Gothic: Humanizing the Monster in The History of Sir Richard Calmady CATHERINE DELYFER Encounters with the Monster: Self-Haunting in Virginia Woolf 's "Street Haunting" TARA SURRY PART II. VISIBLE SPECTERS: HORRIFYING REPRESENTATIONS OF INVISIBLE PATHOLOGY Revising Ophelia: Representing Madwomen in Baillie's Orra and Witchcraft MELISSA WEHLER The Case of the Malnourished Vampyre: The Perils of Passion in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb CAROLYN D. WILLIAMS "The Monster Vice": Masturbation, Malady, and Monstrosity in Frankenstein CHRISTINE M. CROCKETT Invasion and Contagion: The Spectacle of the Diseased Indian in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" RUTH BIENSTOCK ANOLIK Knights of the Seal: Mad Doctors and Maniacs in A.J.H. Duganne's Romance of Reform LISA M. HERMSEN "The Secret of My Mother's Madness": Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Gothic Instability CARLA T. KUNGL "Don't Look Now": Disguised Danger and Disabled Women in Daphne du Maurier's Macabre Tales MARIA PURVES Deviled Eggs: Teratogenesis and the Gynecological Gothic in the Cinema of Monstrous Birth ANDREW SCAHILL "Journeys into Lands of Silence": The Wasp Factory and Mental Disorder MARTYN COLEBROOK Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Diagnosing Demons: Creating and Disabling the Discourse of Difference in the Gothic Text RUTH BIENSTOCK ANOLIK PART I: MONSTROUS DEFORMITY: THE HORRIFYING SPECTACLE OF DIFFERENCE A Space, a Place: Visions of a Disabled Community in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Last Man PAUL MARCHBANKS "Colossal Vices" and "Terrible Deformities" in George Lippard's Gothic Nightmare CYNTHIA HALL Ominous Signs or False Clues? Difference and Deformity in Wilkie Collins's Sensation Novels TAMARA S. WAGNER The Dangerous Mr. Casaubon: Gothic Husband and Gothic Monster in Middlemarch ELIZABETH HALE Folk Medicine, Cunning-Men and Superstition in Thomas Hardy's "The Withered Arm" SIMON J. WHITE Lucas Malet's Subversive Late-Gothic: Humanizing the Monster in The History of Sir Richard Calmady CATHERINE DELYFER Encounters with the Monster: Self-Haunting in Virginia Woolf 's "Street Haunting" TARA SURRY PART II. VISIBLE SPECTERS: HORRIFYING REPRESENTATIONS OF INVISIBLE PATHOLOGY Revising Ophelia: Representing Madwomen in Baillie's Orra and Witchcraft MELISSA WEHLER The Case of the Malnourished Vampyre: The Perils of Passion in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb CAROLYN D. WILLIAMS "The Monster Vice": Masturbation, Malady, and Monstrosity in Frankenstein CHRISTINE M. CROCKETT Invasion and Contagion: The Spectacle of the Diseased Indian in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" RUTH BIENSTOCK ANOLIK Knights of the Seal: Mad Doctors and Maniacs in A.J.H. Duganne's Romance of Reform LISA M. HERMSEN "The Secret of My Mother's Madness": Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Gothic Instability CARLA T. KUNGL "Don't Look Now": Disguised Danger and Disabled Women in Daphne du Maurier's Macabre Tales MARIA PURVES Deviled Eggs: Teratogenesis and the Gynecological Gothic in the Cinema of Monstrous Birth ANDREW SCAHILL "Journeys into Lands of Silence": The Wasp Factory and Mental Disorder MARTYN COLEBROOK Contributors Index
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