{"product_id":"9781783163731","title":"Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic","description":"This book examines how Wilkie Collins’s interest in medical  matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of  the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation  novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Throughout his career, Collins  made changes in the prototypical Gothic scenario. The aristocratic  villains, victimized maidens and medieval castles of classic Gothic  tales were reworked and adapted to thrill his Victorian readership. With  the advances of neuroscience and the development of criminology as a  significant backdrop to most of his novels, Collins drew upon  contemporary anxieties and increasingly used the medical to propel his  criminal plots. While the prototypical castles were turned into modern  medical institutions, his heroines no longer feared ghosts but the  scientist’s knife. This study hence underlines the way in which  Collins’s Gothic revisions increasingly tackled medical questions, using  the medical terrain to capitalize on the readers’ fears. It also  demonstrates how Wilkie Collins’s fiction reworks Gothic themes and  presents them through the prism of contemporary scientific, medical and  psychological discourses, from debates revolving around mental  physiology to those dealing with heredity and transmission. The book’s  structure is chronological covering a selection of texts in each  chapter, with a balance between discussion of the more canonical of  Collins’s texts such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale  and some of his more neglected writings.","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131277787376,"sku":"9781783163731","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783163731_p0.jpg?v=1763722120","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783163731","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}