Queer Others in Victorian Gothic - Transgressing Monstrosity

Informationen zum Autor Ardel Haefele-Thomas is chair of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Studies Department at the City College of San Francisco. Klappentext In Queer Others in Victorian Gothic, Ardel Haefele-Thomas examines a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gothic novels, short stories, and films through the lens of queer cultural studies. In some of these works, as Haefele-Thomas demonstrates, the author or filmmaker fully intended to explore the complicated landscape of queer sexuality and gender identity. In most, however, the author or filmmaker's intentions are unclear. Haefele-Thomas takes on these works, first employing "queer" in its nineteenth-century historical context, to point to their generally weird, odd, or ill components. She then explores them using "queer" in the complex and politically charged context from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Haefele-Thomas argues that part of what makes these texts Gothic are their covert queer content. She also reveals that queer theory--lacking the gender specificity found in gay and lesbian theories and historiographies--allows room to convey gender, sexuality, race, class, and familial structures in a specific state of anti-categorization. Queers Others in Victorian Gothic will appeal to anyone interested in the intersection of gender, sexuality, and literary criticism. 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ardel Haefele-Thomas, Haefele-Thomas Ardel, A Thomas
• Edition: University of Wales Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780708324653
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2465-3
• Pages: 224
• Thèmes: Gothic Literary Studies; Gothic Literary Studies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; English, Queer, Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Victorian, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Romanticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Others, Monstrosity, Transgressing