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Book SynopsisA first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction: Queering the Gothic - William Hughes and Andrew Smith
1. ‘Love in a Convent’: Or, Gothic and the Perverse Father of Queer Enjoyment - Dale Townshend
2. ‘Do You Share My Madness?’: Frankenstein’s Queer Gothic - Mair Rigby
3. Daniel Deronda’s Jewish Panic - Royce Mahawatte
4. ‘That mighty love which maddens one to crime’: Medicine Masculinity, Same-Sex Desire and the Gothic in Teleny - Diane Mason
5. Gothic Landscapes, Imperial Collapse, and the Queering of Adela Quested in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India - Ardel Thomas
6. Antonia White’s Frost in May: Gothic Mansions, Ghosts and Particular Friendships - Paulina Palmer
7. Devouring Desires: Lesbian Gothic Horror - Gina Wisker
8. ‘The taste of blood meant the end of aloneness’.Vampires and Gay Men in Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls - William Hughes
9. Michael Jackson’s Queer Funk - Steven Bruhm
10. Death, Art, and Bodies: Queering the Queer Gothic in Will Self’s Dorian - Andrew Smith
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