Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
Transgressing Monstrosity
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Gothic & Romantic
| Author: | Ardel Haefele-Thomas | ISBN: | 9781783164998 |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press | Publication: | March 15, 2012 |
| Imprint: | University of Wales Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ardel Haefele-Thomas |
| ISBN: | 9781783164998 |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press |
| Publication: | March 15, 2012 |
| Imprint: | University of Wales Press |
| Language: | English |
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 explores our current assumptions about a Victorian culture that was monolithic in its disdain for those who were ‘other’.
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 explores our current assumptions about a Victorian culture that was monolithic in its disdain for those who were ‘other’.
