Victorian demons

Medicine, masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siecle

By: Andrew Smith

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Paperback | 11 March 2004

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Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siecle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto been understood, and makes a significant contribution to Gothic scholarship.

Andrew Smith demonstrates how a Gothic language of monstrosity, drawn from narratives such as ''The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' and ''Dracula'', increasingly influenced a range of medical and cultural contexts, destabilising these apparently dominant masculine scripts. He provides a coherent analysis of a range of examples relating to masculinity drawn from literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts, including Joseph Merrick (''The Elephant Man''), the Whitechapel murders of 1888, Sherlock Holmes''s London, the writings and trials of Oscar Wilde, theories of degeneration and medical textbooks on syphilis.

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Introduction
Degeneration, masculinity, nationhood and the Gothic
Pathologising the Gothic: The Elephant Man, the hysteric, the Indian and the doctor
The Whitechapel murders: Journalism, Gothic London, and the medical gaze
Reading syphilis: The politics of disease
Displacing masculinity: Sherlock Holmes, Count Dracula, and London
Performing masculinity: Wilde's art
Conclusion
Biblography
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Medicine, masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siecle

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