Hughes / Smith Queering the Gothic

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2545-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, William

Smith, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Queering the Gothic - William Hughes and Andrew Smith
1. ‘Love in a Convent’: Or, Gothic and the Perverse Father of Queer Enjoyment - Dale Townshend
2. ‘Do You Share My Madness?’: Frankenstein’s Queer Gothic - Mair Rigby
3. Daniel Deronda’s Jewish Panic - Royce Mahawatte
4. ‘That mighty love which maddens one to crime’: Medicine Masculinity, Same-Sex Desire and the Gothic in Teleny - Diane Mason
5. Gothic Landscapes, Imperial Collapse, and the Queering of Adela Quested in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India - Ardel Thomas
6. Antonia White’s Frost in May: Gothic Mansions, Ghosts and Particular Friendships - Paulina Palmer
7. Devouring Desires: Lesbian Gothic Horror - Gina Wisker
8. ‘The taste of blood meant the end of aloneness’.Vampires and Gay Men in Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls - William Hughes
9. Michael Jackson’s Queer Funk - Steven Bruhm
10. Death, Art, and Bodies: Queering the Queer Gothic in Will Self’s Dorian - Andrew Smith
Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hughes William:
William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa UniversitySmith Andrew:
Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University. Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)