Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal

by Marie Mulvey-Roberts

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526127180
• ISBN13: 9781526127181
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"