Queer Others in Victorian Gothic : Transgressing Monstrosity by Haefele-Thomas, Ardel, author instant download

Queer Others in Victorian Gothic : Transgressing Monstrosity by Haefele-Thomas, Ardel, author instant download

1 online resource (210 pages), Queer Others in Victoran Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of race, sexuality and gender identity within nineteenth-century gothic horror, Print version record, Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Spinster and the Hijra: How Queers Save Heterosexual Marriage in Wilkie Collins's The Womanin White and The Moonstone; Escaping Heteronormativity: Queer Family Structures in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the Witch and 'The Grey Woman'; Disintegrating Binaries, Disintegrating Bodies: QueerImperial Transmogrifications in H. Rider Haggard's She; 'One does things abroad that one would not dreamof doing in England': Miscegenation and Queer Female Vampirism in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire; In Defence of Her Queer Community: Vernon Lee's Coded Decadent GothicNotes; Bibliography; Index, Includes bibliographical references and index