The Gothic Body

The Gothic Body

Author: Kelly Hurley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-12-05

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0521552591

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The popularity of the Gothic in the British fin de siècle, and its links with scientific and social theories.


Body Gothic

Body Gothic

Author: Xavier Aldana Reyes

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1783160942

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The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that reinstates the importance of viscerality to the gothic mode. It argues that contemporary discourses surrounding our bodies are crucial to our understanding of the social messages in fictional mutilation and of the pleasures we may derive from it. This book considers a number of literary and cinematic movements that have, over the past three decades, purposely turned the body into a meaningful gothic topos. Each chapter in Body Gothic is dedicated to a different corporeal subgenre: splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn and surgical horror are all covered in its pages. Close readings of key texts by Clive Barker, Richard Laymon, Joseph D'Lacey, Matthew Stokoe, Tony White or Stanley Manly are provided alongside in-depth analyses of landmark films such as Re-Animator (1985), The Fly (1986), Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), The Human Centipede (2011) and American Mary (2012).


Gothic Bodies

Gothic Bodies

Author: Steven Bruhm

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2011-09-16

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0812206738

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An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" to Romanticism, which puts the self in the foreground as the mediating consciousness. His tightly focused discussion sets a starting point for further critical investigation of the subject.


Dangerous Bodies

Dangerous Bodies

Author: MARIE. MULVEY-ROBERTS

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781526127181

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Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, Dangerous bodies reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. It provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and Nosferatu. This collection of dangerous bodies is traced back to the effects of the English Reformation, Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, Caribbean slavery, Victorian medical malpractice, European anti-Semitism and finally warfare. The endangered or dangerous body lies at the centre of the clash between victim and persecutor and has generated tales of terror and narratives of horror, which function to either salve, purge or dangerously perpetuate such oppositions.


Fashioning Gothic bodies

Fashioning Gothic bodies

Author: Catherine Spooner

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1526125595

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This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.


William Blake's Gothic imagination

William Blake's Gothic imagination

Author: Chris Bundock

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1526121964

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While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.


Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination

Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination

Author: Laura R. Kremmel

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1786838508

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This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a focus on Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama and chapbooks. By comparing the Gothic’s collection of unsavoury tropes to morbid anatomy’s collection of diseased organs, the author argues that the Gothic’s prioritisation of fear and gore gives it access to nonnormative bodies, reallocating medical and narrative agency to bodies considered otherwise powerless. Each chapter pairs a trope with a critical medical debate, granting silenced bodies power over their own narratives: the reanimated corpse confronts fears about vitalism; the skeleton exposes fears about pain; the unreliable corpse feeds on fears of dissection; the devil redirects fears about disability; the dangerous narrative manipulates fears of contagion and vaccination.


Tim Burton's Bodies

Tim Burton's Bodies

Author: Stella Hockenhull

Publisher:

Published: 2022-11-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781474456913

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This innovative study centres on the body as a centripetal force in Burton's work and considers the array of anomalous, extraordinary and transgressive beings that pervade his canon.


Gothic Remains

Gothic Remains

Author: Laurence Talairach

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781786834607

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Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 17641897 traces anatomical culture in Gothic texts from Horace Walpole to Bram Stoker, showing how the Gothic developed and evolved alongside the medical profession, and proposing a genealogy of some of the Gothic texts that marked the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.


Skin Shows

Skin Shows

Author: Judith Halberstam

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780822316633

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Parasites and perverts: an introduction to gothic monstrosity -- Making monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Gothic surface, gothic depth: the subject of secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde -- Technologies of monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Reading counterclockwise: paranoid gothic or gothic paranoia? -- Bodies that splatter: queers and chain saws -- Skinflick: posthuman genderin Jonathan Demme's The silence of the lambs -- Conclusion: serial killing.