The Gothic Body
First published 1996
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This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siecle. Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a unified and stable human identity, and the emergence of a chaotic and transformative "abhuman" identity in its place.
She shows that such representations of gothic bodices are strongly indebted to those found in nineteenth-century biology and social medicine, evolutionism, criminal anthropology, and degeneration theory.
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Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre, standing in opportunistic relation to nineteenth-century scientific and social theories.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Kelly Hurley
- First published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780521607117