Title: Demons of the body and mind
Description: "The sixteen critical essays in this collection examine the ways in which those suffering from mental and physical ailments were refigured as Other during the Gothic era, and how they were imagined to be monstrous. Together, the essays highlight the Gothic inclination to represent all ailments as visibly monstrous, such as mental illness, which were invisible"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English, English Horror tales, Mind and body in literature, Mental illness in literature, History and criticism, People with disabilities in literature, Gothic fiction (literary genre), history and criticism, Horror tales, history and criticism, Disabled Persons, Medicine in Literature