Research Catalog

Title

Queering Gothic in the Romantic age : the penetrating eye / Max Fincher.

Author

Fincher, Max.

Publication

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Details

Description

vi, 205 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age is a study of how the 'penetrating eye' of the Gothic villain is a metaphor for the gaze that inscribes and polices desire in Gothic writing, especially given the vigilance over same-sex desire in the Romantic period. Biographical and critical scrutiny about the sexuality of writers like Walpole, Beckford, Lewis, Godwin and Byron is less important than how such narratives of suspicion, interpretation of the body and gender help us to understand the queerness of Gothic."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Geschichte
• Gothic revival (Literature) > Great Britain
• English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Homosexuality in literature
• English fiction
• Gothic revival (Literature)
• Gothic novel
• Homosexualität Motiv
• Englisch
• Gothic fiction > History > 1764-1824
• Queer theory
• Homosexuality and literature
• Litteraturvetenskap > skräck > Storbritannien > 1800-talet
• Homosexualitet
• Queerteori
• Homosexualitet i litteraturen
• Skräckromaner
• Engelska romaner > historia > 1800-talet
• Great Britain
• Englisch

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Reading the Gaze: A Culture of Vigilance -- Guessing the Mould: Or, The Castle of Otranto? -- Vathek and the Monstrous Queer -- Camping in the Monastery: The Monk -- Caleb Williams and the Queer Sublime -- Penetrating Eye(s): Lara. The Giaour, The Vampyre -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780230003477
• 0230003478
• 9780230223172
• 0230223176

OCLC

• ocm85689584
• 85689584
• SCSB-1438695

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library