Victorian Demons : Medicine, Masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siecle артикул 7531d.
Victorian Demons : Medicine, Masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siecle артикул 7531d.

Book Description Victorian Demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siècle It analyzes how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonized in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto ожыжц been understood Andrew Smith demonstrates how a Gothic language of monstrosity, drawn from narratives such as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Dracula, increasingly influenced a range of medical and cultural contexts, destabilizing these apparently dominant masculine scripts He provides a concise analysis of a range of examples relating to masculinity drawn from literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts, including Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man), the Whitechapel murders of 1888, Sherlock Holmes's London, the writings and trials of Oscar Wilde, theories of degeneration and medical textbooks on syphilis.  Ретроспективный2004 г 200 стр ISBN 0719063574.