Gothic masculinities in the Victorian Age / Ruth Heholt, Mariaconcetta Costantini

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heholt, Ruth, author.

Costantini, Mariaconcetta, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Gothic

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Gothic 2634-8721

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

Masculinity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Gothic Masculinities in the Victorian Age explores masculinity and the Gothic in the literature of the long nineteenth century. In recent criticism masculinity in the Gothic is most usually discussed as being fractured, unstable, and threatened. Gothic Masculinities examines this fragmentation of gendered identity, but it also considers other types of arguments and representations of men in Gothic literature. The Gothic (genre and mode) is multiple, shifting, changing, multifaceted, and intertextual, and there are significant differences in the types of masculinity depicted. This Element examines the myth and deconstruction of an idealised conception of one whole, unified, hegemonically powerful masculinity, but it also examines some of the many other identities available within the practices of masculinity. The Gothic has always allowed space for subversion and the unconventional and Gothic Masculinities explores and celebrates some unexpected representations of men and their many different and sometimes surprising forms of masculine identity"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Based on a true story : Criminal, gothic masculinities and the case of the Newgate novels

Respectable criminal professionals

Ghostly men or men and ghosts

Monsters and savages : Men in crisis and the racialisation of otherness

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 3, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Heholt, Ruth Gothic masculinities in the Victorian Age

ISBN:

9781009582179

1009582178

9781009582209

1009582208

OCLC:

1596885232

Publisher Number:

CIPO000409173

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