The Queer Uncanny - New Perspectives on the Gothic

Informationen zum Autor Now retired, Paulina Palmer was a senior lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She was also a lecturer of gender and sexuality at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her publications include Contemporary Women's Fiction: Narrative Practice and Feminist Theory ; Contemporary Lesbian Writing: Dreams, Desire, Difference ; and Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions . Klappentext This volume investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction published 1980-2007. Zusammenfassung This volume investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny! as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists! in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British! American and Caribbean fiction published 1980-2007. Inhaltsverzeichnis CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION: QUEERING THE UNCANNY CHAPTER 2 - SECRETS AND THEIR DISCLOSURE 1 Secrets and sexuality 2 New approaches to the coming out novel 3 Double secrets: AIDS narratives 4 History/ mystery CHAPTER 3 - QUEER SPECTRALITY 1 Spectral fictions 2 Ghost stories and queer hauntings 3 The phantom-text 4 Transgender doubles CHAPTER 4 - PLACE AND SPACE 1 Theoretical approaches 2 The haunted house 3 Uncanny cities 4 Ritual and ceremony CHAPTER 5 - MONSTROUS OTHERS 1 Hybridity and border-crossing 2 Demons and robots 3 Carnivalesque fantasies

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Now retired, Paulina Palmer was a senior lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She was also a lecturer of gender and sexuality at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her publications include Contemporary Women's Fiction: Narrative Practice and Feminist Theory; Contemporary Lesbian Writing: Dreams, Desire, Difference; and Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Paulina Palmer
• Verlag: University Of Chicago Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.05.2012
• EAN: 9780708324585
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2458-5
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Gothic Literary Studies; University of Wales Press - Go; Gothic Literary Studies; University of Wales Press
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; On, New, English, Queer, Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Uncanny, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gay & Lesbian studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Perspectives, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics