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I have titled the project Graphomania, and I consider the term a keyword of late- Victorian culture one that names a distinctly Victorian pathology of compulsive writing, but that alludes also to the widespread epistemic hope that writing could render objectively the internal and subjective experiences of individuals. Indexical inscription constitutes the privileged mode of signifying within Gothic fiction as such, the tradition is uniquely positioned to explore the entanglement of bodies and signs within a modern information society often misunderstood as a disembodied network of dematerialized signs. Though critics tend to describe Gothic as genre, the fundamental distinctiveness of Gothic inscription is derived from the pronounced and often dramatically visceral relation it enacts between script and medium. Kelly Hurley The thesis by Gregory Donald Brophy entitled: Graphomania: Composing Subjects in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction and Technology is accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Date Chair of the Thesis Examination Board iiĤ Abstract This dissertation explores the varied phenomena of automatic writing in Victorian Gothic fiction, reading the genre s fascination with the irrepressible signifying practices of the body in light of the medical, criminological and scientific discourses that underwrite the scriptural economy of the late nineteenth century with their own arsenal of automatic writing machines. Christopher Keep Supervisory Committee Dr.

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