Gothic Diagnostics in British Fiction 1830-1897

我的论文将把诊断焦虑的历史带到中心舞台上，不仅关注哥特式研究中惯用的对异常身体的污名，而且关注塞缪尔·沃伦、安娜·金斯福德、亚瑟·柯南·道尔和爱德华·贝铎等作家在哥特式小说中对临床过程的病理性描述。这个博士将研究哥特式诊断学是如何发展的，他们对临床方法和仪器的发展的反应，以及他们如何使诊断者和被诊断者之间的关系哥特化。采用新历史主义方法和以医学人文为基础的方法论，它将比较哥特式小说、诊断手册和医学期刊，描绘出19世纪哥特式诊断学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.