dc.contributor.author | Wagner, C | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-15T12:28:43Z | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-20T13:57:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-05 | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | Late eighteenth-century science aimed to render the body transparent; in contrast, gothic novels of the same period often represented the body as an untrustworthy source of information about the self. In these novels, characters may often be reduced to a bodily or facial map, which may give clues as to personal character, motivation and intention. Yet the practice of reading the body — as practiced in sciences such as physiognomy, phrenology or criminology — also comes under intense interrogation. Through disastrous mis-readings, misdiagnoses and mis-identifications, gothic novelists demonstrate how conflating body and self is deeply threatening to ideas of ‘unique’ personhood. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 74 - 92 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.7227/GS.14.1.8 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4163 | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Manchester University Press | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://manchester.metapress.com/content/1362-7937 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Gothic, transparency, body, physiognomy, identity, disguise, medicine | en_GB |
dc.title | The Dream of a Transparent Body: Identity, Science and the Gothic Novel | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-15T12:28:43Z | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-03-20T13:57:15Z | |
dc.contributor.editor | Wright, A | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1362-7937 | en_GB |
dc.relation.isreplacedby | 10871/25476 | |
dc.relation.isreplacedby | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/25476 | |
dc.description | Post-print version of article deposited following SHERPA guidelines. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Gothic Studies | en_GB |