Houses, secrets, and the closet : locating masculinities from the gothic novel to Henry James / / Gero Bauer

• Autore: Bauer Gero
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 420
• Soggetto non controllato: Literature; American Studies; British Studies; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; Gender; Gothic Novel; Henry James; Homosexuality; Literary Studies; Masculinity; Queer; Sensation Novel
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 Introduction 9 Bluebeard's 'Closet:' Gothic Novels 45 The Contested Secret Room: Sensation Novels 101 Globalising the 'Closet:' Henry James 165 Coda 213 Works Cited 223
• Sommario/riassunto: »Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts through the lens of domestic space, gender, knowledge, and power. This approach serves to investigate the cultural roots of the ›closet‹ - the male homosexual secret - which reveals a more general notion of male secrecy in modern society. The study thus contributes to a better understanding of the cultural history of masculinities and sexualities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Houses, Secrets, and the Closet
• ISBN: 3-8394-3468-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996308775403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Lettre