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Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel
Diana Pérez Edelman
出版
Springer Nature
, 2021-07-02
主題
Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century
Fiction / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Fiction / Gothic
Science / History
Social Science / Sociology / General
Literary Criticism / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Fiction / Horror
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
3030736482
9783030736484
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=q7I2EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 Pérez 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 chapters analyze Horace Walpole’s
The Castle of Otranto
; Ann Radcliffe’s
A Sicilian Romance
,
The Italian
, and
The Mysteries of Udolpho
; Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein
; Charles Robert Maturin’s
Melmoth the Wanderer
; and James Hogg’s
Confessions of a Justified Sinner
, arguing that these touchstones of the Gothic register
why
the Gothic emerged at that time and
why
it continues today: the mysteries of reproduction remain unsolved.