Queer Others in Victorian Gothic : Transgressing Monstrosity.
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| Author / Creator: | Haefele-Thomas, Ardel, author. |
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| Imprint: | Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (210 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gothic Literary Studies Gothic literary studies. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11176318 |
| Summary: | 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'. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780708324660 0708324665 9781783164998 1783164999 9780708324646 0708324649 9780708324653 0708324657 |