num_pages: 203
description: This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic and its immense popularity during the British fin de sicle. In particular Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the the loss of a unified and stable human identity and the emergence of a chaotic and transformative abhuman identity in its place. Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre strongly indebted to nineteenth-century scientific medical and social theories including evolutionism criminal anthropology and degeneration theory.
language: English
title: The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle
publisher: Cambridge University Press