Diana Pérez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole’s use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community.

2021年7月3日 · This introductory chapter outlines the relationship between embryology and the Gothic mode beginning with Horace Walpole’s use of embryological metaphors in an early poem. The chapter provides a brief overview of the history of embryology, including...

2021年7月3日 · The clear recognizability of the Gothic, despite its many faces, is due, in part, to its intimate connection with reproductive questions, which have been implicit in Gothic aesthetics from Walpole’s dead embryos of thought to M. W. Shelley’s hideous progeny.

As early as the 1790s, Ann Radcliffe firmly set the Gothic in one of the ways it would go ever after: a novel in which the central figure is a young woman who is simultaneously persecuted victim and courageous heroine. But what are we to make of the next major turning of the Gothic tradition that a woman brought about, a generation later?

2018年5月19日 · By considering Lyall’s Experimental Conception Hospital alongside three other technologies—the Panopticon, the hot air balloon and anatomical drawings of the gravid uterus—this article discovers the anachronistic persistence of supposedly out-dated modes of thoughts around female sexuality and reproductive biology in an apparently hyper-modern m...

The document promotes the book 'Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel' by Diana Pérez Edelman, which explores the intersection of embryology and Gothic literature. It is part of the Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine series, emphasizing historical and theoretical approaches to literature's relationship with science and medicine. The document also includes links to ...

What accounts with the popular fascination with (and horror of) children’s sexuality? How do they see their characters’ imperatives to write as part of this cultural phenomenon? How has the Freudian project inflected the way the Gothic--and the Gothic child--get conceived in our culture?

2020年12月19日 · The Gothic church was rebuilt in the new Flamboyant style of Late Gothic architecture. The entrance gained a large rose window, which puts the flame in Flamboyant. Only the upper half of the rose window is visible (St-Séverin’s “hidden treasure”), as the lower half is obscured by the organ pipes.

2021年8月23日 · But more than that, McMillan draws on the gothic framing of the embryo developed by Ford 10 to help examine how and why we place boundaries on what it means to be human and skilfully links this with ideas of liminality and ‘the in-between’.

2021年1月1日 · Diana Pérez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole’s use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and...