Queering the gothic / edited by William Hughes and Andrew Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes, William, 1964-

Smith, Andrew, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

Homosexuality in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction: Queering the gothic / William Hughes and Andrew Smith

'Love in a convent': or, Gothic and the perverse father of queer enjoyment / Dale Townshend

'Do you share my madness?': Frankenstein's queer gothic / Mair Rigby

Daniel Deronda's Jewish panic / Royce Mahawatte

'That mighty love which maddens one to crime': medicine masculinity, same-sex desire and the gothic in Teleny / Diane Mason

Gothic landscapes, imperial collapse and the queering of Adela Quested in E.M. Forster's A passage to India / Ardel Thomas

Antonia White's Frost in May: gothic mansions, ghosts and particular friendships / Paulina Palmer

Devouring desires: lesbian gothic horror / Gina Wisker

'The taste of blood meant the end of aloneness': vampires and gay men in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost souls / William Hughes

Michael Jackson's queer funk / Steven Bruhm

Death, art, and bodies: queering the queer gothic in Will Self's Dorian / Andrew Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719078156

0719078156

OCLC:

232981117