Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle [electronic resource] /
Karschay, S.author.
This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Degeneration and the Victorian Sciences; 3 Detecting the Degenerate: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan; 4 Othering the Degenerate: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Richard Marsh's The Beetle; 5 Normalising the Degenerate: Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?
British literature.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.