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Embryology and the rise of the Gothic novel [electronic resource]
- 作者： Edelman, Diana Perez.
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- Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine.
- 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- 叢書名： Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine,
- 主題： Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism. , English literature--18th century--History and criticism. , English literature--19th century--History and criticism. , Science in literature--History--18th century. , Science in literature--History--19th century. , Nineteenth-Century Literature. , Fiction. , Literary Theory. , Gothic Studies. , History of Science. , Cultural Studies.
- ISBN： 9783030736484 (electronic bk.) 、 9783030736477 (paper)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: 1. Conceiving the Gothic; or, "A New Species of Romance" -- 2. "A very natural dream"; or, The Castle of Otranto -- 3. "The liberty of choice"; or, The Novels of Ann Radcliffe -- 4. "Dark, shapeless substances"; or, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- 5. "Nature preached a milder theology"; Or, Melmoth the Wanderer -- 6. "Something scarcely tangible"; Or, James Hogg's Confessions -- 7. Conclusion: Gothic Offspring; or, "the qualitas occulta".
- 摘要註: "Foregrounding some of the most canonical and widely studied Gothic and Romantic texts, offering readings that are at once vibrant and new while still somehow familiar in the best possible way, Edelman makes it clear just how fundamental a concern with generation is to any understanding of the period. This work is deeply learned and wonderfully accessible-and profoundly urgent." -James Robert Allard, Brock University, Canada, and author of Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body (2007) "Edelman argues that contemporary theories of embryology (not yet an empirical science) debate often contradictory concerns about origins, identity, hybridity, and the potential for an infinite number of forms. Gothic narratives express similar anxieties, adapting to popular and high art, changing historical circumstances, and media unimaginable at their birth. Reading the evolution of Gothic in the context of inherently contradictory theories of embryology illuminates the literature's own contradictions. (Is it conservative or revolutionary? Feminist or misogynist?) Edelman's learned and cogent exposition of this unexpected biological context will engage not only students of the Gothic tradition, but also the growing audience discovering the material and scientific roots of Romanticism." -Anne Williams, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Georgia, USA, and author of Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic (1995) This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Perez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole's use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community. The book then explores the ways in which Gothic literature can be read as epigenetic in its focus on internally sourced modes of identity, monstrosity, and endless narration. The chapter
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- 系統號： 005547722 | 機讀編目格式
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