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'Victorian demons' explores how a crisis in masculinity was represented in literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts at the fin-de-siècle. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Gothic.

Table of Contents

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

Victorian Demons Medicine Masculinity and the

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 3/11/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719063572, 978-0719063572
      ISBN10: 0719063574

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      'Victorian demons' explores how a crisis in masculinity was represented in literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts at the fin-de-siècle. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Gothic.

      Table of Contents

      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

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