Queer Others in Victorian Gothic

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Applying theory to literary history and to the present, *Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity* explores intersections in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From such mid-century authors as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and J. Sheridan Le Fanu to the fin-de-siècle writers Florence Marryat and Vernon Lee, this study examines how Victorian writers utilized gothic horror as a proverbial 'safe space' in which to grapple with taboo social and cultural issues, and considers also the continuities in our current assumptions of an age that was monolithic in its disdain for those who were 'other'. Ardel Haefele-Thomas is a Victorian and Queer Studies scholar who currently holds the position of Chair of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at City College of San Francisco.

subjects: History and criticism,  Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English,  Homosexuality in literature,  English fiction,  English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century,  Gothic fiction (literary genre), history and criticism,  Horror tales,  Gothic revival (Literature),  Gothic fiction (Literary genre),  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Gothic & Romance,  Englisch,  Gothic novel,  Verschiedenheit,  Horrorliteratur,  Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900,  Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers,  English,  Gothic,  Romanticism,  Literature,  LGBT,  queer

People: Vernon Lee,  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,  Florence Marryat,  Henry Rider Haggard,  Elizabeth Gaskell,  Wilkie Collin

Times: Victorian era