Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity by Ardel Haefele-Thomas

By Ardel Haefele-Thomas

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, category and race. From mid-century authors like Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell to fin-de-siècle writers equivalent to J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Florence Marryat and Vernon Lee, this examine examines the ways in which those Victorian writers applied gothic horror as a proverbial ‘safe area’ during which to grapple with taboo social and cultural concerns. This paintings concurrently explores our present assumptions a few Victorian tradition that used to be monolithic in its disdain in the event you have been ‘other’.

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