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Dracula for Doctors: Medical Facts and Gothic Fantasies

Dracula for Doctors: Medical Facts and Gothic Fantasies

9781911623298
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Exploring how medicine and psychiatry are portrayed in gothic literature, this engaging book illustrates how Stokers 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 Stokers 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.
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9781911623298
9781911623298

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Publication date
2019
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
216
Dimensions (mm)
157.00 x 234.00
Weight (g)
340
  • Preface; Foreword; 1. Body and mind; 2. Medico-gothic; 3. Stoker medical circles; 4. Asylum doctors; 5. The gothic asylum; 6. Renfield, the pet lunatic; 7. The other patients; 8. Diagnosing Dracula; 9. Dread, disease and the asylum; 10. Occult blood; 11. Holes in the skull; 12. Dead, alive or undead; 13. Therapeutic armamentarium; 14. Compelling eyes; 15. Beastliness; 16. Vivisection or animal torture?; 17. Demons and doctors; 18. Scientists and the supernatural; 19. And Dracula for dentists …; 20. Sex and death; Index.
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