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Clinical Gothic: Sensationalising Substance Abuse in the Victorian Home

Clinical Gothic: Sensationalising Substance Abuse in the Victorian Home

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Clinical Gothic: Sensationalising Substance Abuse in the Victorian Home

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Clinical Gothic: Sensationalising Substance Abuse in the Victorian Home

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Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

Journal title

Gothic studies, 2009-11, Vol.11 (2), p.30-40

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English

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Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

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Contents

Controversies about the mid-Victorian sensation novel newly brought to the fore clinical conceptualisations of novel reading as an addiction. Yet as novelists capitalised on the sensational potential of substance abuse at home as part of the genre‘s rupture of ideologies of domesticity, they juxtaposed the consumption of sensational material with o...

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Clinical Gothic: Sensationalising Substance Abuse in the Victorian Home

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TN_cdi_gale_incontextgauss_8GL_A381057964

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_gale_incontextgauss_8GL_A381057964

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ISSN

1362-7937,2050-456X

E-ISSN

2050-456X

DOI

10.7227/GS.11.2.5

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