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Dangerous Bodies : Historicising the Gothic Corporeal by Marie Mulvey-Roberts is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dangerous Bodies : Historicising the Gothic Corporeal about?
The body is a potential marker of monstrosity, identifying those who do not fit into the body politic. Irregularity and the grotesque have been associated with Gothic architecture and are also indicative of wayward flesh and its deformities. Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, Dangerous bodies reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. Original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts include The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and Nosferatu. This collection of fictionalised dangerous bodies is traced back to the effects of the English Reformation, Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, Caribbean slavery, Victorian medical malpractice, European anti-Semitism and finally warfare, ranging from the Crimean up to the Vietnam War. Dangerous bodies demonstrates how the Gothic corpus is haunted by a tangible sense of corporeality, often at its most visceral. Chapters set out to vocalise specific body parts such as skin, genitals, the nose and eyes,
Who reads Dangerous Bodies : Historicising the Gothic Corporeal?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Marie Mulvey-Roberts
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781784996758
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Romance, Medical
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14