Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Karschay, S.

This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-01-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137450326

DOI: 10.1057/9781137450333

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 304