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Examines how Wilkie Collins' interest in medical matters developed through his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s.

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'Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic sheds new light on the position of criminality, the physical body, and the mind in Collins's work through a thorough examination of contemporary medicine and its newly gothicised nature. The work is a good starting point for anyone interested in reading Collins's novels for their criminal plots, examining the texts closely whilst implementing interdisciplinary scholarship, a burgeoning and important area of research in the study of Collins's fiction. Talairach-Vielmas's work is both interesting and readable, providing a focused study that examines exactly what it promises in the title.' Verity Burke, The British Society for Literature and Science

Wilkie Collins Medicine and the Gothic

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      Publisher: University of Wales Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/09/2009
      ISBN13: 9780708322239, 978-0708322239
      ISBN10: 708322239

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines how Wilkie Collins' interest in medical matters developed through his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s.

      Trade Review
      'Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic sheds new light on the position of criminality, the physical body, and the mind in Collins's work through a thorough examination of contemporary medicine and its newly gothicised nature. The work is a good starting point for anyone interested in reading Collins's novels for their criminal plots, examining the texts closely whilst implementing interdisciplinary scholarship, a burgeoning and important area of research in the study of Collins's fiction. Talairach-Vielmas's work is both interesting and readable, providing a focused study that examines exactly what it promises in the title.' Verity Burke, The British Society for Literature and Science

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