Queering the Gothic

By: William Hughes (Editor), Andrew Smith (Editor)

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Hardcover | 23 June 2009

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Queering the Gothic is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth century and the present, the contributors explore the relationship between reading Gothically and reading Queerly, making this collection both an important reassessment of the Gothic tradition and a significant contribution to scholarship on queer theory.

Writers discussed include William Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, George Du Maurier, Oscar Wilde, Eric, Count Stenbock. E. M. Forster, Antonia White, Melanie Tem, Poppy Z. Brite, and Will Self. There is also exploration of non-text media including an analysis of Michael Jackson's pop videos. Arranged chronologically, the book establishes links between texts and periods and examines how conjunctions of 'queer', 'gay', and 'lesbian' can be related to, and are challenged by, a Gothic tradition. All of the chapters were specially commissioned for the collection, and the contributors are drawn from the forefront of academic work in both Gothic and Queer Studies. -- .

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Queering the Gothic
‘Love in a Convent’: Or, Gothic and the Perverse Father of Queer Enjoyment
‘Do You Share My Madness?’: Frankenstein’s Queer Gothic
Daniel Deronda’s Jewish Panic
‘That mighty love which maddens one to crime’: Medicine Masculinity, Same-Sex Desire and the Gothic in Teleny
Gothic Landscapes, Imperial Collapse, and the Queering of Adela Quested in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
Antonia White’s Frost in May: Gothic Mansions, Ghosts and Particular Friendships
Devouring Desires: Lesbian Gothic Horror
‘The taste of blood meant the end of aloneness’.Vampires and Gay Men in Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls
Michael Jackson’s Queer Funk
Death, Art, and Bodies: Queering the Queer Gothic in Will Self’s Dorian
Notes on Contributors
Index
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