Embryology and the rise of the Gothic novel / Diana Edelman.
Edelman, Diana, author.
2021
PR830.T3
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Title Embryology and the rise of the Gothic novel / Diana Edelman.
Author Edelman, Diana, author.
ISBN 9783030736484 (electronic bk.)
3030736482 (electronic bk.)
3030736474
9783030736477
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73648-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-73648-4 doi
Call Number PR830.T3
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.087290906
Summary This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Perez Edelman dissects Horace Walpoles use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community. The book then explores the ways in which Gothic literature can be read as epigenetic in its focus on internally sourced modes of identity, monstrosity, and endless narration. The chapters analyze Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto; Ann Radcliffes A Sicilian Romance, The Italian, and The Mysteries of Udolpho; Mary Shelleys Frankenstein; Charles Robert Maturins Melmoth the Wanderer; and James Hoggs Confessions of a Justified Sinner, arguing that these touchstones of the Gothic register why the Gothic emerged at that time and why it continues today: the mysteries of reproduction remain unsolved. Diana Perez Edelman is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Georgia, Gainesville, USA.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
Available in Other Form EMBRYOLOGY AND THE RISE OF THE GOTHIC NOVEL.
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1. Conceiving the Gothic; or, A New Species of Romance
2. A very natural dream; or, The Castle of Otranto
3. The liberty of choice; or, The Novels of Ann Radcliffe
4. Dark, shapeless substances; or, Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
5. Nature preached a milder theology; Or, Melmoth the Wanderer
6. Something scarcely tangible; Or, James Hoggs Confessions
7. Conclusion: Gothic Offspring; or, the qualitas occulta.

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