Dracula for Doctors: Medical Facts and Gothic Fantasies

by Fiona Subotsky

An overview of how Victorian medical and psychiatric knowledge and culture informed Bram Stoker's masterpiece and other gothic and sensation literature of the time. Topics discussed include asylum doctors in fact and fiction, Darwinian ideas and degeneration theory, vivisection, blood, sexual disease, and concepts of the supernatural and the undead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191162329X
• ISBN13: 9781911623298
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Rcpsych Publications
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"