Dracula for doctors : medical facts and gothic fantasies / Fiona Subotsky.
- 作者： Subotsky, Fiona.
- 其他題名：
- Royal college of psychiatrists.
- Cambridge medicine.
- 出版： Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press c2020.
- 叢書名： Royal college of psychiatrists , Cambridge medicine
- 主題： Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) , Gothic literature--History and criticism. , Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century. , Medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century. , Medicine in Literature. , Legendary Creatures--history. , History, 19th Century.
- ISBN： 978-1-911623-29-8: GBP24.99 、 1-911623-29-X (pbk.)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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讀者標籤：
- 系統號： 005272427 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Explores the connection between medicine and gothic literature examining disease, psychiatry and supernatural in the nineteenth century.
摘要註
"Exploring how medicine and psychiatry are portrayed in gothic literature, this engaging book illustrates how Stoker's famous work was influenced by nineteenth-century attitudes to disease and medicine and reveals many previously unknown links. Extracts from many sensational stories of the time are presented, and the role of doctors and their appearance and contribution to gothic fiction is investigated. The book covers topics such as asylums, their purpose, practice and patients, deadly diseases echoing the symptoms of vampirism, and the otherworldly allure of the undead. Dracula for Doctors is an entertaining and informative examination of how Victorian medical knowledge and culture informed Stoker's gothic masterpiece. This book suggests that Stoker, who had many medical connections, was able to link lurid stories of operations and asylums with fictional horror and suspense. Fans of gothic literature, as well as those of medical history and the supernatural, will find this an enjoyable read."--Back cover.
內容註
Body and mind -- Medico-gothic -- Stoker medical circles -- Asylum doctors -- The gothic asylum -- Renfield, the pet lunatic -- The other patients -- Diagnosing Dracula -- Dread, disease and the asylum -- Occult blood -- Holes in the skull -- Dead, alive or undead -- Therapeutic armamentarium -- Compelling eyes -- Beastliness -- Vivisection or animal torture? -- Demons and doctors -- Scientists and the supernatural -- And Dracula for dentists -- Sex and death.