Queering the Gothic

Informationen zum Autor William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS) Klappentext A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. Zusammenfassung A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Queering the Gothic - William Hughes and Andrew Smith1. 'Love in a Convent': Or, Gothic and the Perverse Father of Queer Enjoyment - Dale Townshend2. 'Do You Share My Madness?': Frankenstein's Queer Gothic - Mair Rigby3. Daniel Deronda's Jewish Panic - Royce Mahawatte4. 'That mighty love which maddens one to crime': Medicine Masculinity, Same-Sex Desire and the Gothic in Teleny - Diane Mason5. Gothic Landscapes, Imperial Collapse, and the Queering of Adela Quested in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India - Ardel Thomas6. Antonia White's Frost in May: Gothic Mansions, Ghosts and Particular Friendships - Paulina Palmer7. Devouring Desires: Lesbian Gothic Horror - Gina Wisker8. 'The taste of blood meant the end of aloneness'.Vampires and Gay Men in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls - William Hughes9. Michael Jackson's Queer Funk - Steven Bruhm10. Death, Art, and Bodies: Queering the Queer Gothic in Will Self's Dorian - Andrew SmithNotes on ContributorsIndex

Product details

• Authors: William Smith Hughes, Andrew Smith, Hughes Andrew William, Hughes Smith William, WILLIAM HUGHES ANDREW SMITH
• Assisted by: William Hughes (Editor), Andrew Smith (Editor), Andrew W. M. Smith (Editor), Hughes William (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2009
• EAN: 9780719078156
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7815-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers