Queer others in Victorian gothic : transgressing monstrosity / / Ardel Haefele-Thomas
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| Autore: |
Thomas Ardel
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| Titolo: |
Queer others in Victorian gothic : transgressing monstrosity / / Ardel Haefele-Thomas
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| Pubblicazione: | Cardiff : , : University of Wales Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.809352664 |
| Soggetto topico: | Gothic revival (Literature) - History and criticism |
| Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - History and criticism | |
| Horror tales - History and criticism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Queer others in Victorian gothic |
| ISBN: | 0-7083-2466-5 |
| 1-299-20125-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816138303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Gothic literary studies.