Rethinking Gothic transgressions of gender and sexuality new directions in Gothic studies / edited by Sarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein.
| Other author | Faber, Sarah, 1989- |
| Other author | Münderlein, Kerstin-Anja, 1988- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in speculative literature |
| Contents | Introduction: Gothic and transgression -- Gothic in the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Excessive fainting and parodic bending: analysing socio-political criticism through the heroine's body in the Gothic novel and the Gothic parody / Kerstin-Anja Münderlein -- The comfort of the male gaze in Dickens's Our mutual friend / Franziska Quabeck -- Gothic monster or creative muse? Strategies of empowerment in Grace King's "One of us" / Alycia Garbay -- From Gothic heroines to monstrous prom queens: gender horror in Dracula and Jennifer's body / Kit Schuster -- Violet Strange: Gothic girl detective / Keli Masten -- Gothic from the World Wars to the present. "I don't want to grow up:" abject adolescence and Southern Gothic in Carson McCullers's short stories / Jerneja Planinsek-Zlof -- The unspeakable plant - gender, desire and the monstrous vegetal in Frances Hardinge's The lie tree / Anja Höing -- 'Annihilation' of the gendered human: ecogothic transgressions of anthropocentrism / Tamara Schmitt and Maria Weber -- Transgressing genre and gender: masculinities and (post)feminism in neo-Gothic narratives / Miriam Borham-Puyal -- "But it seems to me that I have absorbed Ruth" - Gothic doubles in Laura Purcell's The corset / Lara Brändle -- Archive of the unspeakable: unsilencing violence in Carmen Maria Machado's In the dream house / Carolin Jesussek -- Narrating the (queer) Gothic in the Magnus Archives podcast / Maria Juko -- The wholesome queer Gothic: transgressing narrative norms and shifting LGBTQIA+ representation in contemporary re-inventions of the Gothic / Sarah Faber -- Conclusion: Gothic prospects: ancient monsters and new anxieties. |
| Abstract | "From early examples of queer representation in mainstream media to present-day dissolutions of the human-nature boundary, the Gothic is always concerned with delineating and transgressing the norms that regulate society and speak to our collective fears and anxieties. This volume examines British and American Gothic texts from four centuries and diverse media - including novels, films, podcasts, and games - in case studies which outline the central relationship between the Gothic and transgression, particularly gender(ed) and sexual transgression. This relationship is both crucial and constantly shifting, ever in the process of renegotiation, as transgression defines the Gothic and society redefines transgression. The case studies draw on a combination of well-studied and under-studied texts in order to arrive at a more comprehensive picture of transgression in the Gothic. Pointing the way forward in Gothic Studies, this original and nuanced combination of gendered, ecogothic, queer and media critical approaches addresses established and new scholars of the Gothic alike"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023042404 |
| ISBN | 9781032451381 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032451398 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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