Queer Gothic : An Edinburgh Companion / edited by Ardel Haefele-Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haefele-Thomas, Ardel, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to the gothic.

Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.) : 9 B/W illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Explores a full spectrum of Gothic works broadly understood as queer, from the eighteenth century to todayExplores Gothic themes through nuanced queer lensesRe-visits past ideas of queer theory and expands on them within Gothic contextFocuses on time periods, genres, and queer Gothic modesQueer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion features sixteen essays that interrogate queer theory's intersections with the Gothic. By re-visiting the usefulness of the term 'queer' and pushing queer theoretical frameworks into new territory, this volume explores the ways that Gothic and queer work alongside each other: one as a marginalised genre and the other as a marginalised identity. Considering both major and lesser-known Gothic works, and ranging from the canonical (poetry and fiction) to the popular (film, video games, music, and visual and performance art), it offers queer and trans perspectives on a wide selection of Gothic modes, genres and texts from fiction such as Hugh Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to Jeanette Winterson's The Daylight Gate, films from Nosferatu to The Cured and TV shows including In the Flesh and Pose.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Introduction to Queer Gothic: 'I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey'

Part I Queer Times

1. Desiring Deformity in the Romantic Gothic

2. Queer Gothic: Romantic Origins and Victorian Innovations

3. Strange Cases of the Queer fin de siècle: Law, Medicine and the Gothic Imaginative Mode

4. Gothic Cinema and Sexology in the Weimar Republic: Towards a Queer Gothic Aesthetic on Screen

5. 'Tarting up ideas in costume jewellery': Contemporary Gothic Camp

Part II Queer Monsters

6. Queer Vampires: What We Want is in the Shadows

7. Queer Zombies

8. 'Queer-Wolves and Wolf-Boyz and Were-Bears, Oh My!': Queering the Wolf in New Queer Horror Film and TV

9. 'Spectrality is in part a mode of historicity': Representations of Spectrality in Queer Historiography and Contemporary Fiction

10. Witchcraft, Gender and Queerness in Contemporary British Literature

Part III Queer Forms

11. Queer Gothic Poetry

12. Queer Gothic Visual Art: A Twisted Path from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-First

13. Queering Gothic Slash Fandoms: Harry Potter, Ginger Snaps and Worldbuilding

14. Solidarity is More than a Slogan: Queer Representation in the Virtual World

15. 'Y'all ain't from around these parts': Queer Displacement in American Folk Horror

16. This is What Queer Resistance Looks Like: AIDS Gothic Art

Bibliography

Filmography

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-9439-0