Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de by S. Karschay

By S. Karschay

This intriguing new examine appears to be like at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century technological know-how and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it increases are as proper this day as they have been on the 19th century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has happened? What precisely does it suggest to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?

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