Book contents
- Dracula for Doctors
- Dracula for Doctors
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Body and Mind
- Chapter 2 Medico-Gothic
- Chapter 3 Stoker Medical Circles
- Chapter 4 Asylum Doctors
- Chapter 5 The Gothic Asylum
- Chapter 6 Renfield, The Pet Lunatic
- Chapter 7 The Other Patients
- Chapter 8 Diagnosing Dracula
- Chapter 9 Dread Disease and the Asylum
- Chapter 10 Occult Blood
- Chapter 11 Holes in the Skull
- Chapter 12 Dead, Alive or Undead
- Chapter 13 Therapeutic Armamentarium
- Chapter 14 Compelling Eyes
- Chapter 15 Beastliness
- Chapter 16 Vivisection or Animal Torture?
- Chapter 17 Demons and Doctors
- Chapter 18 Scientists and the Supernatural
- Chapter 19 And Dracula for Dentists …
- Chapter 20 Sex and Death
- Index
Chapter 14 - Compelling Eyes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2019
- Dracula for Doctors
- Dracula for Doctors
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Body and Mind
- Chapter 2 Medico-Gothic
- Chapter 3 Stoker Medical Circles
- Chapter 4 Asylum Doctors
- Chapter 5 The Gothic Asylum
- Chapter 6 Renfield, The Pet Lunatic
- Chapter 7 The Other Patients
- Chapter 8 Diagnosing Dracula
- Chapter 9 Dread Disease and the Asylum
- Chapter 10 Occult Blood
- Chapter 11 Holes in the Skull
- Chapter 12 Dead, Alive or Undead
- Chapter 13 Therapeutic Armamentarium
- Chapter 14 Compelling Eyes
- Chapter 15 Beastliness
- Chapter 16 Vivisection or Animal Torture?
- Chapter 17 Demons and Doctors
- Chapter 18 Scientists and the Supernatural
- Chapter 19 And Dracula for Dentists …
- Chapter 20 Sex and Death
- Index
Summary
Mesmerism and hypnosis were popular themes in the fiction of the nineteenth century, so only some of the more relevant examples will be discussed, and then some issues centring especially on the eyes. But first something of the historical background, in which Stoker himself was interested.
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- Dracula for DoctorsMedical Facts and Gothic Fantasies, pp. 113 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019