Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorWagner, Cen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-15T12:28:43Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T13:57:15Z
dc.date.issued2012-05en_GB
dc.description.abstractLate 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.citationVol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 74 - 92en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.7227/GS.14.1.8en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/4163en_GB
dc.publisherManchester University Pressen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://manchester.metapress.com/content/1362-7937en_GB
dc.subjectGothic, transparency, body, physiognomy, identity, disguise, medicineen_GB
dc.titleThe Dream of a Transparent Body: Identity, Science and the Gothic Novelen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2013-01-15T12:28:43Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-20T13:57:15Z
dc.contributor.editorWright, Aen_GB
dc.identifier.issn1362-7937en_GB
dc.relation.isreplacedby10871/25476
dc.relation.isreplacedbyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/25476
dc.descriptionPost-print version of article deposited following SHERPA guidelines.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalGothic Studiesen_GB


Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record