The Gothic Body
Subtitle: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521607117
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Gender Studies; English; Sociology; Social Science; English fiction--19th century--History and cr; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Social Science / Gender Studies
First sentence: In William Hope Hodgson's "The Crew of the Lancing," an unnamed ship, sailing somewhere in the tropics, is becalmed after a submarine earthquake.