Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies

by Laura R. Kremmel

"This book demonstrates a little-studied crossover between the Gothic imagination and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. Unafraid to explore the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, Laura R. Kremmel argues, Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and chapbooks expanded the possibilities of medical theories by showing what they might look like in a speculative space without limits. In comparing the Gothic's collection...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786838486
• ISBN13: 9781786838483
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.6"