The Gothic Body - Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration At the Fin De Siecle

Klappentext The popularity of the Gothic in the British fin de si cle, and its links with scientific and social theories. Zusammenfassung This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siècle. Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre - the loss of a unified and stable human identity - and reveals the links between the Gothic body and nineteenth-century scientific and social theories. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Gothic Material World: 1. The revenge of matter; 2. Symptomatic readings; Part II. Gothic Bodies: 3. Evolutionism and the loss of human specificity; 4. Entropic bodies; 5. Chaotic bodies; Part III. Gothic Sexualities: 6. Uncanny female interiors; 7. Abjected masculinities; Afterword; 8. Narrative chaos.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kelly Hurley, Kelly (University of Colorado Hurley, Hurley Kelly
• Mitarbeit: Gillian Beer (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 29.07.2004
• EAN: 9780521607117
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60711-7
• Seiten: 220
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Print on Demand
• Themen: Schule und Lernen; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien