Demons of the Body and Mind

Ruth Bienstock Anolik teaches at Villanova University and writes extensively on the Gothic mode. Her articles have been published in Modern Language Studies, Studies in Jewish Literature,, and other journals and collections.

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• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction: Diagnosing Demons: Creating and Disabling the Discourse of Difference in the Gothic TextRUTH BIENSTOCK ANOLIK      PART I: MONSTROUS DEFORMITY: THE HORRIFYING SPECTACLE OF DIFFERENCEA Space, a Place: Visions of a Disabled Community in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last ManPAUL MARCHBANKS      “Colossal Vices” and “Terrible Deformities” in George Lippard’s Gothic NightmareCYNTHIA HALL      Ominous Signs or False Clues? Difference and Deformity in Wilkie Collins’s Sensation NovelsTAMARA S. WAGNER      The Dangerous Mr. Casaubon: Gothic Husband and Gothic Monster in MiddlemarchELIZABETH HALE      Folk Medicine, Cunning-Men and Superstition in Thomas Hardy’s “The Withered Arm”SIMON J. WHITE      Lucas Malet’s Subversive Late-Gothic: Humanizing the Monster in The History of Sir Richard CalmadyCATHERINE DELYFER      Encounters with the Monster: Self-Haunting in Virginia Woolf ’s “Street Haunting”TARA SURRY      PART II. VISIBLE SPECTERS: HORRIFYING REPRESENTATIONS OF INVISIBLE PATHOLOGYRevising Ophelia: Representing Madwomen in Baillie’s Orra and WitchcraftMELISSA WEHLER      The Case of the Malnourished Vampyre: The Perils of Passion in John Cleland’s Memoirs of a CoxcombCAROLYN D. WILLIAMS      “The Monster Vice”: Masturbation, Malady, and Monstrosity in FrankensteinCHRISTINE M. CROCKETT      Invasion and Contagion: The Spectacle of the Diseased Indian in Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”RUTH BIENSTOCK ANOLIK      Knights of the Seal: Mad Doctors and Maniacs in A.J.H. Duganne’s Romance of ReformLISA M. HERMSEN      “The Secret of My Mother’s Madness”: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Gothic InstabilityCARLA T. KUNGL      “Don’t Look Now”: Disguised Danger and Disabled Women in Daphne du Maurier’s Macabre TalesMARIA PURVES      Deviled Eggs: Teratogenesis and the Gynecological Gothic in the Cinema of Monstrous BirthANDREW SCAHILL      “Journeys into Lands of Silence”: The Wasp Factory and Mental DisorderMARTYN COLEBROOK      Contributors      Index