Research Catalog

Title

Queering the gothic / edited by William Hughes and Andrew Smith.

Publication

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hughes, William, 1964-
• Smith, Andrew, 1964-

Description

xii, 195 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Homosexuality in literature
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Queering the gothic / William Hughes and Andrew Smith -- 'Love in a convent': or, Gothic and the perverse father of queer enjoyment / Dale Townshend -- 'Do you share my madness?': Frankenstein's queer gothic / Mair Rigby -- Daniel Deronda's Jewish panic / Royce Mahawatte -- 'That mighty love which maddens one to crime': medicine masculinity, same-sex desire and the gothic in Teleny / Diane Mason -- Gothic landscapes, imperial collapse and the queering of Adela Quested in E.M. Forster's A passage to India / Ardel Thomas -- Antonia White's Frost in May: gothic mansions, ghosts and particular friendships / Paulina Palmer -- Devouring desires: lesbian gothic horror / Gina Wisker -- 'The taste of blood meant the end of aloneness': vampires and gay men in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost souls / William Hughes -- Michael Jackson's queer funk / Steven Bruhm -- Death, art, and bodies: queering the queer gothic in Will Self's Dorian / Andrew Smith.

Call Number

JFD 10-351

ISBN

• 9780719078156 (hbk.)
• 0719078156 (hbk.)

OCLC

232981117

Title

Queering the gothic / edited by William Hughes and Andrew Smith.

Imprint

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hughes, William, 1964-

Smith, Andrew, 1964-

Research Call Number

JFD 10-351