This essay investigates how HG Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau employs the gothic
trope of the uncanny. Despite Wells's use of 'uncanny'twice to describe humanized animals …

This historical study of early 19th-century opposition to vivisection suggests that the moral
persona of the vivisector was an important theme. Vivisectors claimed they deliberately …

THE debate over the role of the magical or hermetic tradition in mid-seventeenth century
England, vhich Frances Yates launched has now reached epic proportions.! As a result …

Displaying a Gothic fascination with the misapplication of science, Edward Berdoe's St
Bernard's: The Romance of a Medical Student (1887) was one of a number of novels in the …

In a letter to Prince Leopold de Medici of 1668, the Italian courtier Lorenzo Magalotti
expressed his dismay on hearing that Charles II, the supposed protector of the Royal …

IN was 1894, the recognized when Frances leader Power of the Cobbe anti-vivisection
published organization her autobiography, the Victoria she was the recognized leader of the …

Studies ofVictorian science and medicine have often remarked on the proliferation
of'popular'or'fringe'sciences and therapies during this period. In such accounts, mesmerism …

The Cambridge Platonist, Henry More (1614-1687), was a dominant figure on the 17th-
century intellectual scene. His life spanned both the political revolutions of the English Civil …

In Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Maturin describes scenes of human suffering with such
relish that it is hardly surprising that the novel's early critics condemned it as being …

Some of the most innovative works of fiction in the British anti-realist tradition can be found
amongst popular genres—Gothic Horror, sensation fiction, science fiction—at the fin de …