This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving be

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Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of “Loss” explores the many ways in which literature and film h

Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. It tells the story of the emergence i