Kelly Hurley

Gothic Body (eBook, PDF)

Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle

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Produktbeschreibung

Readers familiar with Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may not know that dozens of equally remarkable Gothic texts were written in Great Britain at the end of the nineteenth-century. This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siecle. Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a unified and stable human identity, and the emergence of a chaotic and transformative 'abhuman' identity in its place. She shows that such representations of Gothic bodies are strongly indebted to those found in nineteenth-century biology and social medicine, evolutionism, criminal anthropology, and degeneration theory. Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre, standing in opportunistic relation to nineteenth-century scientific and social theories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 1996
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511821011
• Artikelnr.: 40171109

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Gothic Material World: 1. The revenge of matter
2. Symptomatic readings
Part II. Gothic Bodies: 3. Evolutionism and the loss of human specificity
4. Entropic bodies
5. Chaotic bodies
Part III. Gothic Sexualities: 6. Uncanny female interiors
7. Abjected masculinities
Afterword
8. Narrative chaos.