Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-188) and index.
Contents
Degeneration, masculinity, nationhood and the Gothic -- Pathologising the gothic: the elephant man, the hysteric, the Indian and the doctor -- The Whitechapel murders: journalism, gothic London, and the medical gaze -- Reading syphilis: the politics of disease -- Displacing masculinity: Sherlock Holmes, Count Dracula, and London -- Performing masculinity: Wilde's art.
