Gothic Literary Studies - Bogserien

Many books have been published on the body and the body in parts. However, very few of them tackle the relationship between literature/ the Gothic and anatomical culture in depth. Tim Marshall’s Murdering to Dissect: Graverobbing, Frankenstein and the anatomy of literature (Manchester University Press, 1995) is one of the exceptions. Recently, Ian Conrich and Laura Sedgwick’s Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature: The Body in Parts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) has raised interest in the issue of dissection but does not however provide close readings of Gothic texts like those proposed by Gothic Remains. Andrew Smith’s Gothic Death, 1740–1914 (Manchester University Press, 2016) deals with death/corpses and the Gothic but is less focused on the history of medicine and the part played by anatomy in medical education and practice.