Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic

by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Throughout his career, Wilkie Collins made changes to the prototypical gothic scenario, reworking and adapting aristocratic villains, victimized maidens, and medieval castles in order to thrill his Victorian readership. Drawing upon contemporary anxieties introduced by advances in neuroscience and the development of criminology, Collins transformed Moorish castles into modern medical institutions and ghost-fearing heroines into nineteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708322239
• ISBN13: 9780708322239
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 224 Pages