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- Provides analysis of both literary and medical texts
- Offers a new understanding of the Gothic and Romanticism and the development of these genres
- Extends history of medicine research beyond obstetrics, midwifery, and motherhood to incorporate the science of embryology
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Edelman argues that contemporary theories of embryology (not yet an empirical science) debate often contradictory concerns about origins, identity, hybridity, and the potential for an infinite number of forms. Gothic narratives express similar anxieties, adapting to popular and high art, changing historical circumstances, and media unimaginable at their birth. Reading the evolution of Gothic in the context of inherently contradictory theories of embryologyilluminates the literature’s own contradictions. (Is it conservative or revolutionary? Feminist or misogynist?) Edelman’s learned and cogent exposition of this unexpected biological context will engage not only students of the Gothic tradition, but also the growing audience discovering the material and scientific roots of Romanticism.” (Anne Williams, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Georgia, USA, and author of Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic (1995))
Authors and Affiliations
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University of North Georgia, Oakwood, USA
Diana Pérez Edelman
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel
Authors: Diana Pérez Edelman
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73648-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73647-7Published: 03 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73650-7Published: 03 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73648-4Published: 02 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 179
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, Gothic Studies, History of Science, Cultural Studies