Andrew Smith

Victorian demons (eBook, PDF)

Medicine, masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle

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Produktbeschreibung

Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siècle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto been understood, and makes a significant contribution to Gothic scholarship. Andrew Smith demonstrates how a Gothic language of monstrosity, drawn from narratives such as 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Dracula', increasingly influenced a range of medical and cultural contexts, destabilising these apparently dominant masculine scripts. He provides a coherent analysis of a range of examples relating to masculinity drawn from literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts, including Joseph Merrick ('The Elephant Man'), the Whitechapel murders of 1888, Sherlock Holmes's London, the writings and trials of Oscar Wilde, theories of degeneration and medical textbooks on syphilis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526125576
• Artikelnr.: 60364162

Autorenporträt

Andrew Smith is an aircraft structure technician, writer, designer, and illustrator. He has a special interest in spiritual connectivity and the wide-ranging forces of harmony, wisdom, patience, prudence, and discipline. He lives in Ottawa with his family.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1 Degeneration
masculinity
nationhood and the Gothic Chapter 2 Pathologising the Gothic: The Elephant Man
the hysteric
the Indian and the doctor Chapter 3 The Whitechapel murders: Journalism
Gothic London
and the medical gaze Chapter 4 Reading syphilis: The politics of disease Chapter 5 Displacing masculinity: Sherlock Holmes
Count Dracula
and London Chapter 6 Performing masculinity: Wilde's art Conclusion Biblography