Dracula for Doctors: Medical Facts and Gothic Fantasies

ISBN-13: 9781911623298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

Fiona Subotsky

Opis

Explores the connection between medicine and gothic literature examining disease, psychiatry and supernatural in the nineteenth century.

Recenzje

'Whether your interest is that of the folkloric or the literary variety of fan, this is a well-informed and well-researched read.' Deborah Wyde, Fortean Times

Spis treści

Preface; Foreword; 1. Body and mind; 2. Medico-gothic; 3. Stoker medical circles; 4. Asylum doctors; 5. The gothic asylum; 6. Renfield, the pet lunatic; 7. The other patients; 8. Diagnosing Dracula; 9. Dread, disease and the asylum; 10. Occult blood; 11. Holes in the skull; 12. Dead, alive or undead; 13. Therapeutic armamentarium; 14. Compelling eyes; 15. Beastliness; 16. Vivisection or animal torture?; 17. Demons and doctors; 18. Scientists and the supernatural; 19. And Dracula for dentists …; 20. Sex and death; Index.