Queer Gothic
By: George E. Haggerty.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780252031083; 9780252073533
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain; Horror tales, English -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States; Horror tales, American -- History and criticism; Homosexuality in literature; Sex in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gothic fiction and the history of sexuality; title: Gothic fiction and the erotics of loss; title: Dung, guts, and blood: sodomy, abjection, and the Gothic; title: The horrors of Catholicism: religion and sexuality in Gothic fiction; title: Psycho-drama: hypertheatricality and sexual excess on the Gothic stage; title: "The end of history": identity and dissolution in apocalyptic Gothic; title: "Queer company": the Turn of the screw and The haunting of hill house; title: "Queerer knowledge": Lambert Strether and Tom Ripley; title: Anne Rice and the queering of culture.