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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1138897519 Title: Gothic remains : corpses, terror and anatomical culture, 1764-1897 Author: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas Publisher: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2019] ©2019 ISBN/ISSN: 178683460X 9781786834607 OCLC:1138897519

  
  

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Gothic remains : corpses, terror and anatomical culture, 1764-1897

Author:	Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher:	Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2019] ©2019
Series:	Gothic literary studies
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror - the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton -capable of creating a sublime form of beauty. This book offers an exploration of those Gothic tropes and conventions which were most thoroughly steeped in the anatomical culture of the period- from skeletons, used to understand human anatomy, to pathological human remains exhibited in medical museums; from bodysnatching aimed at providing dissection subjects to live-burials resulting from medical misdiagnosis and pointing to contemporary research into the signs of death.  Read more...
Subjects	Human body in literature. Human dissection in literature. Human anatomy in literature. View all subjects
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