Horrifying Sex
Subtitle: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: July 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780786430147
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Sexuality In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature & Fiction / Literary Criticism; Gothic & Romance; Human Sexuality; 19th century; 20th century; English literature; History and criticism; Sex differences (Psychology) in literature
Description: "The first three sections of this collection of essays refer to popular as well as marginalized Gothic texts to portray the three prototypes of sexual deviance. The fourth section covers literary works that celebrate sexual difference and question the idea that the sexually deviant is socially Other"--Provided by publisher.