Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
Transgressing Monstrosity
Awdur(on) Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Iaith: Saesneg
Dosbarthiad(au): History
Cyfres: Gothic Literary Studies
- Mawrth 2012 ·216x138mm
- · Clawr Meddal - 9780708324653
- · eLyfr - pdf - 9780708324660
- · eLyfr - epub - 9781783164998
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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-siecle 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 explores our current assumptions about a Victorian culture that was monolithic in its disdain for those who were 'other'.