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Queer others in Victorian gothic : transgressing monstrosity / Ardel Haefele-Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haefele-Thomas, Ardel.
- Series:
- Gothic literary studies.
- Gothic literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic revival (Literature)--History and criticism.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre).
- Horror tales--History and criticism.
- Horror tales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From mid-century authors like Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell to fin-de-siècle writers such as J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Florence Marryat and Vernon Lee, this study examines the ways that these Victorian writers utilized gothic horror as a proverbial 'safe space' in which to grapple with taboo social and cultural issues. This work simultaneously expl
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Spinster and the Hijra: How Queers Save Heterosexual Marriage in Wilkie Collins's The Womanin White and The Moonstone; Escaping Heteronormativity: Queer Family Structures in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the Witch and 'The Grey Woman'; Disintegrating Binaries, Disintegrating Bodies: QueerImperial Transmogrifications in H. Rider Haggard's She; 'One does things abroad that one would not dreamof doing in England': Miscegenation and Queer Female Vampirism in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire
- In Defence of Her Queer Community: Vernon Lee's Coded Decadent GothicNotes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 13, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-7083-2466-5
- 1-299-20125-3
- OCLC:
- 830170204
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