Transgothic in Literature and Culture

This book offers new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. It explores categories like transgenders, transbodies, and transembodiments, and broader concepts that move beyond the limits of gender identity and sexuality, such as transhistories, transpo

List of contents

Foreword
Susan Stryker

Introduction: "Transing the Gothic"
Jolene Zigarovich

Part I: Transgothic Gender

Chapter 1. "Beyond Queer Gothic: Charting the Gothic History of the Trans Subject in Beckford, Lewis, Byron"
Nowell Marshall

Chapter 2. "Go to Hell: William Beckford’s Skewed Heaven and Hell"
Jeremy Chow

Chapter 3. "Transgothic Desire in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya"
Jolene Zigarovich

Chapter 4. "That Dreadful Thing That Looked Like A Beautiful Girl": Trans Anxiety/Trans Possibility in Three Late Victorian Werewolf Tales"
Ardel Haefele-Thomas

Part II: Transgothic Bodies

Chapter 5. "Monster Trans: Diffracting Affect, Reading Rage"
Harlan Weaver

Chapter 6. "More Than Skin Deep: Aliens, Fembots, and Trans-Monstrosities in Techno-Gothic Space"
April Miller

Chapter 7. "Gothic Gender in Skin Suits, or The (Transgender) Skin I Live In"
Anson Koch-Rein

Part III: Transgothic Rhetorics

Chapter 8. "The Media of Madness: Gothic transmedia and the Cthulhu mythos"
Jason Whittaker

Chapter 9. "Black Weddings and Black Mirrors: Gothic as Transgeneric Mode"
Hannah Priest

Chapter 10. "The state of play: transgressive caricature and transnational Enlightenment"
Ian McCormick

Index

About the author

Jolene Zigarovich is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.

Summary

This book offers new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. It explores categories like transgenders, transbodies, and transembodiments, and broader concepts that move beyond the limits of gender identity and sexuality, such as transhistories, transpo

Product details

• Authors: Jolene Zigarovich, Jolene (University of Northern Iowa Zigarovich
• Assisted by: Jolene Zigarovich (Editor), Zigarovich Jolene (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367667535
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66753-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: general, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+