Title: The Gothic Body
First published: 1996
Description: This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siecle. Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a unified and stable human identity, and the emergence of a chaotic and transformative "abhuman" identity in its place. She shows that such representations of gothic bodices are strongly indebted to those found in nineteenth-century biology and social medicine, evolutionism, criminal anthropology, and degeneration theory.

Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre, standing in opportunistic relation to nineteenth-century scientific and social theories.
Subjects: Body, Human, in literature, Degeneration in literature, English Horror tales, English fiction, Gothic revival (Literature), History, History and criticism, Horror tales, English, Literature and science, Literature and society, Materialism in literature, Sex in literature, Human body in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Horror tales, history and criticism, Materialism, Human Body, In literature, Sex, Modern Literature, Body Image
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR878.T3 H87 1996