@article{ref1,
title="Erotomania vs. Amnesia: The metaphor of disease in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things",
journal="Foreign Literature Studies",
year="2013",
author="Wang, W.",
volume="35",
number="4",
pages="65-72",
abstract="Erotomania and amnesia are the two dominant metaphors of disease in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things (1992), which stand for different attitudes towards women in Victorian age. The freedom-pursuing Bella is diagnosed with erotomania by his former husband's private doctor. She chooses to commit suicide for she cannot accept the &quot;treatment&quot;. Godwin Baxter resuscitates the drowned Bella through the transplanting of her unborn baby's brain and diagnoses her choice of remarriage as the aftermath of her amnesia. Erotomania is a metaphor of disease imposed upon a free woman in Victorian age, whereas amnesia is a therapy to escape from the social restraints. The full name of Bella has the connotation of &quot;beautiful Scotland&quot; and Scotland is often feminized in English historical narrative; therefore, Bella's fate may be as well taken as Scotland's fate in the United Kingdom. © Copyright by Foreign Literature Studies.<p /><p>Language: zh</p>",
language="zh",
issn="1003-7519",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}