Haefele-Thomas, Ardel.

Queer Others in Victorian Gothic Transgressing Monstrosity. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (210 pages) - Gothic Literary Studies .

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Spinster and the Hijra: How Queers Save Heterosexual Marriage in Wilkie Collins's The Womanin White and The Moonstone; Escaping Heteronormativity: Queer Family Structures in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the Witch and 'The Grey Woman'; Disintegrating Binaries, Disintegrating Bodies: QueerImperial Transmogrifications in H. Rider Haggard's She; 'One does things abroad that one would not dreamof doing in England': Miscegenation and Queer Female Vampirism in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire In Defence of Her Queer Community: Vernon Lee's Coded Decadent GothicNotes; Bibliography; Index

Queer Others in Victoran Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of race, sexuality and gender identity within nineteenth-century gothic horror.



9780708324660


Horror tales--History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature)--History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

PR830 / .Q447 2012