Queer Others in Victorian Gothic

Transgressing Monstrosity

von Ardel Haefele-Thomas

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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'.

• Reihe: Gothic Literary Studies
• ISBN: 9780708324653
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2012
• Größe: 215 x 141 mm
• Verlag: University of Wales Press