Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature: The Body in Parts

by Ian Conrich and Laura Sedgwick

This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and across the body-from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin and the stomach-this book engages in unique readings by foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on scholarly work on the 'Gothic body' and 'body horror', Gothic Dissections...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137303573
• ISBN13: 9781137303578
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"