Queering the Gothic

Herausgeber: Hughes, William; Smith, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780719086434
• ISBN-10: 0719086434
• Artikelnr.: 33615495

Autorenporträt

William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University. Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: Queering the Gothic - William Hughes and
Andrew Smith 1. 'Love in a Convent': Or, Gothic and the Perverse Father of
Queer Enjoyment - Dale Townshend 2. 'Do You Share My Madness?':
Frankenstein's Queer Gothic - Mair Rigby 3. Daniel Deronda's Jewish Panic -
Royce Mahawatte 4. 'That mighty love which maddens one to crime': Medicine
Masculinity, Same-Sex Desire and the Gothic in Teleny - Diane Mason 5.
Gothic Landscapes, Imperial Collapse, and the Queering of Adela Quested in
E. M. Forster's A Passage to India - Ardel Thomas 6. Antonia White's Frost
in May: Gothic Mansions, Ghosts and Particular Friendships - Paulina Palmer
7. Devouring Desires: Lesbian Gothic Horror - Gina Wisker 8. 'The taste of
blood meant the end of aloneness'.Vampires and Gay Men in Poppy Z. Brite's
Lost Souls - William Hughes 9. Michael Jackson's Queer Funk - Steven Bruhm
10. Death, Art, and Bodies: Queering the Queer Gothic in Will Self's Dorian
- Andrew Smith Notes on Contributors Index