Title: Gothic Remains
Description: "The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror-- the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton-- capable of creating a sublime form of beauty. This book offers an exploration of those Gothic tropes and conventions which were most thoroughly steeped in the anatomical culture of the period-- from skeletons, used to understand human anatomy, to pathological human remains exhibited in medical museums; from bodysnatching aimed at providing dissection subjects to live-burials resulting from medical misdiagnosis and pointing to contemporary research into the signs of death"--
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Gothic fiction (literary genre), history and criticism, Death in literature, Human body in literature, Human dissection in literature, Human anatomy in literature, Medicine in literature, Dead in literature, Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English literature, History and criticism, 18.05 English literature