Queer others in Victorian Gothic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haefele-Thomas, Ardel.

Series:

Gothic literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror tales--History and criticism.

Horror tales.

Gothic revival (Literature)--History and criticism.

Gothic revival (Literature).

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

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Physical Description:

xi, 195 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : University of Wales Press, 2012.

Summary:

Applying theory to literary history and to the present, Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores intersections in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From such mid-century authors as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and J. Sheridan Le Fanu to the fin-de-siècle writers Florence Marryat and Vernon Lee, this study examines how Victorian writers utilized gothic horror as a proverbial 'safe space' in which to grapple with taboo social and cultural issues, and considers also the continuities in our current assumptions of an age that was monolithic in its disdain for those who were 'other'. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 The Spinster and the Hijra: How Queers Save Heterosexual Marriage in Wilkie Collin's The Woman in White and The Moonstone 8

3 Escaping Heteronormativity: Queer Family Structures in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the Witch and 'The Grey Woman' 48

4 Disintegrating Binaries, Disintegrating Bodies: Queer Imperial Transmogrifications in H. Rider Haggards She 72

5 'One does things abroad that one would not dream of doing in England': Miscegenation and Queer Female Vampirism in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Camilla and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire 96

6 In Defence of Her Queer Community: Vernon Lee's Coded Decadent Gothic 120.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780708324646

0708324649

9780708324653

0708324657

9780708324660

0708324665

OCLC:

781997262