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  • 2.11 - Charles Dickens and the Gothic
  • Edited by Dale Townshend, Manchester Metropolitan University, Angela Wright, University of Sheffield
  • Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the Gothic
  • Published online: 18 July 2020
  • Print publication: 06 August 2020, pp 246-264
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    Summary

    This chapter explores the pervasive ways in which Gothic forces and affiliations appear in Dickens’s writings. The word ‘Gothic’ is rare in his work but an awareness of Gothic tropes, plottings and conventions is vital to understanding it. Gothic is used in highly innovative ways: to explore asymmetrical power relations of many sorts; to limit-test the idea of the ‘human’; and as radical social critique. The diabolical and uncanny are particularly powerful modes, and Dickens is pioneering both in his use of ‘virtual’ Gothic in A Christmas Carol and in the creation of ‘paranoid Gothic’ in the violent same-sex eroticism of Our Mutual Friend and the Mystery of Edwin Drood. Gothic is also an essential component of such scenes as Miss Havisham’s resemblance to ‘waxwork and skeleton’ in Great Expectations and Fagin’s and Monks’s appearance at the sleeping Oliver Twist’s window. The chapter discusses a wide range of Gothic presences in these and other works, concluding with a discussion of Dicken’s remarkable late essay ‘Nurse’s Stories’ (1863), a complex ‘meta-Gothic’ reflection on uncanny repetition and its simultaneously comic and diabolical power in subjective experience and narration.

  • Neuroticism and suicide in a general population cohort: results from the UK Biobank Project
  • Evyn M. Peters, Ann John, Rudy Bowen, Marilyn Baetz, Lloyd Balbuena
  • Journal: BJPsych Open / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / March 2018
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2018, pp. 62-68
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    Background

    Neuroticism has often been linked to suicidal thoughts and behaviour.

    Aims

    To examine whether neuroticism is associated with suicide deaths after adjusting for known risks.

    Method

    UK Biobank participants (n = 389 365) were assessed for neuroticism as well as social, demographic and health-related variables at study entry and followed for up to 10 years. Suicide risk was modelled using Cox regression stratified by gender.

    Results

    Neuroticism increased the risk of suicide in both men (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.15, 95% CI 1.09–1.22) and women (HR = 1.16, 95% CI 1.06–1.27). In a subsample who were assessed for mood disorders, neuroticism remained a significant predictor for women (HR 1.25, 95% CI 1.03–1.51) but not for men.

    Conclusions

    Screening and therapeutic interventions for neuroticism may be important for early suicide prevention.

    Declaration of interest

    None.

  • Maternal mental health: a shared care approach
  • Hua Li, Angela Bowen, Michael Szafron, John Moraros, Nazeem Muhajarine
  • Journal: Primary Health Care Research & Development / Volume 17 / Issue 2 / March 2016
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2015, pp. 175-183
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    Background

    Maternal mental health problems affect up to 20% of women, with potentially deleterious effects to the mother and family. To address this serious problem, a Maternal Mental Health Program (MMHP) using a shared care approach was developed. A shared care approach can promote an efficient use of limited specialized maternal mental health services, strengthen collaboration between the maternal mental health care team and primary care physicians, increase access to maternal mental health care services, and promote primary care provider competence in treating maternal mental health problems.

    Aim

    The purpose of this research was to evaluate the impact of a MMHP using a shared care approach on maternal anxiety and depression symptoms of participants, the satisfaction of women and referring physicians, and whether the program met the intents of shared care approach (such as quick consultation, increased knowledge, and confidence of primary care physicians).

    Methods

    We used a pre and post cross-sectional study design to evaluate women’s depression and anxiety symptoms and the satisfaction of women and their primary care health provider with the program.

    Findings

    Depression and anxiety symptoms significantly improved with involvement with the program. Women and physicians reported high levels of satisfaction with the program. Physician knowledge and confidence treating maternal mental health problems improved.

    Conclusions

    Shared care can be an effective and efficient way to provide maternal mental health care in primary health care settings where resources are limited.

European States and their Muslim Citizens
  • European States and their Muslim Citizens
  • The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions and Boundaries
  • Edited by John R. Bowen, Christophe Bertossi, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Mona Lena Krook
  • Published online: 05 October 2013
  • Print publication: 07 October 2013
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    This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military, electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses. The contributors consider the way people draw on practical schemas regarding others in their midst who are often categorized as Muslims. Chapters based on fieldwork and policy analysis across several countries examine how people interact in their everyday work lives, where they construct moral boundaries, and how they formulate policies concerning tolerable diversity, immigration, discrimination, and political representation. Rather than assuming that each country has its own national ideology that explains such interactions, contributors trace diverse pathways along which institutions complicate or disrupt allegedly consistent national ideologies. These studies shed light on how Muslims encounter particular faces and facets of the state as they go about their lives, seeking help and legitimacy as new citizens of a fast-changing Europe.

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