Victorian demons
Subtitle: medicine, masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle
By: Andrew Smith.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Medicine in literature; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain; Masculinity in literature; Demonology in literature; Diseases in literature; Men in literature
Description: Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siecle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto been understood, and makes a significant contribution to Gothic scholarship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-188) and index.