Dracula for doctors : medical facts and gothic fantasies
Subotsky, Fiona2020
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Place reservation for Dracula for doctors : medical facts and gothic fantasiesExploring 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.
Main title:
Dracula for doctors : medical facts and gothic fantasies / Fiona Subotsky.
Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Collation:
ix, 186 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
At head of cover title: Royal College of Psychiatrists.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781911623298 (pbk)
Dewey class:
809.38729823.8
Language:
English
Subject:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticismPsychiatry in literatureMedicine in literatureLiterature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryStoker, Bram, 1847-1912. DraculaDracula, Count (Fictitious character)LiteratureLiterature: history & criticismLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersHistory of medicinePsychiatry
BRN:
2287201
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