Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-226) and index. Gothic fiction and the history of sexuality -- Gothic fiction and the erotics of loss -- "Dung, guts, and blood": sodomy, abjection, and the Gothic -- The horrors of Catholicism: religion and sexuality in Gothic fiction -- Psychodrama: hypertheatricality and sexual excess on the Gothic stage -- "The end of history": identity and dissolution in apocalyptic Gothic -- "Queer company": the Turn of the screw and The haunting of hill house -- "Queerer knowledge": Lambert Strether and Tom Ripley -- Anne Rice and the queering of culture.

Classification

• LCC: PR830
• Dewey Decimal: 823/.0872909

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: x, 231 p. ; 23 cm.
• Edition Info: (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects

• Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain
• Horror tales, English -- History and criticism
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States
• Horror tales, American -- History and criticism
• Homosexuality in literature
• Sex in literature

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