Gothic Diagnostics in British Fiction 1830-1897

我的论文将把诊断性焦虑的历史带到中心舞台，不仅关注对异常身体的污名化，就像在哥特式研究中已经习惯的那样，而且关注塞缪尔·沃伦、安娜·金斯福德、阿瑟·柯南·道尔和爱德华·伯多等作家在哥特式小说中对临床过程的病理化。本博士将研究哥特诊断学是如何发展的，他们对临床方法和仪器发展的反应，以及他们如何将诊断学和被诊断学之间的关系哥特式化。采用新历史主义方法和基于医学人文学科的方法论，它将比较哥特小说、诊断手册和医学期刊，绘制出19世纪哥特诊断在医学和文学文本中的演变，以确定医学和文学领域之间的协同作用。

My dissertation will bring the history of diagnostic anxieties to the centre stage,focusing not just on the stigmatisation of deviant bodies, as has been customary in Gothicstudies, but the pathologisation of clinical processes in Gothic fiction by writers such asSamuel Warren, Anna Kingsford, Arthur Conan Doyle and Edward Berdoe. This PhD willexamine how Gothic diagnostics develop, their reaction to the developments in clinicalmethods and instruments, and the way in which they gothicise the relationship between thediagnoser and the diagnosed. Deploying a New Historicist approach and MedicalHumanities-based methodology, it will compare Gothic fiction, diagnostic manuals andmedical journals, mapping out the evolution of nineteenth-century Gothic diagnostics inmedical and literary texts to determine the synergy between the medical and literary spheres.