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Informationen zum Autor Ardel Haefele-Thomas is a Victorian and Queer Studies scholar who currently holds the position of Chair of Lesbian! Gay! Bisexual and Transgender Studies at City College of San Francisco. Klappentext Queer Others in Victoran Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of race! sexuality and gender identity within nineteenth-century gothic horror. Zusammenfassung This book explores the intersections of Gothic! cultural! gender! queer! socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality! gender! class and race. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The Spinster and the Hijra: How Queers Save Heterosexual Marriage in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and The Moonstone Chapter Three: Escaping Heteronormativity: Queer Family Structures in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the Witch and 'The Grey Woman' Chapter Four: Disintegrating Binaries! Disintegrating Bodies: Queer Imperial Transmogrifications in H. Rider Haggard's She Chapter Five: '"One Does Things Abroad That One Would Not Dream Of Doing In England"': Miscegenation and Queer Female Vampirism in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire Chapter Six: In Defense of Her Queer Community: Vernon Lee's Coded Decadent Gothic
