Queering Contemporary Gothic Narrative 1970-2012 (palgrave Gothic)
by Paulina Palmer /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book explores the development of queer Gothic fiction,
contextualizing it with reference to representations of queer
sexualities and genders in eighteenth and nineteenth-century
Gothic, as well as the sexual-political perspectives generated by
the 1970s lesbian and gay liberation movements and the development
of queer theory in the 1990s. The book examines the roles
that Gothic motifs and narrative strategies play in depicting
aspects of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex
experience in contemporary Gothic fiction. Gothic motifs discussed
include spectrality, the haunted house, the vampire, doppelganger
and monster. Regional Gothic and the contribution that Gothic
tropes make to queer historical fiction and historiography receive
attention, as does the AIDS narrative. Female Gothic and feminist
perspectives are also explored. Writers discussed include Peter
Ackroyd, Vincent Brome, Jim Grimsley, Alan Hollinghurst, Randall
Kenan, Meg Kingston, Michelle Paver, Susan Swan, Louise Tondeur,
Sarah Waters, Kathleen Winter and Jeanette Winterson.
This book explores the development of queer Gothic fiction,
contextualizing it with reference to representations of queer
sexualities and genders in eighteenth and nineteenth-century
Gothic, as well as the sexual-political perspectives generated by
the 1970s lesbian and gay liberation movements and the development
of queer theory in the 1990s. The book examines the roles
that Gothic motifs and narrative strategies play in depicting
aspects of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex
experience in contemporary Gothic fiction. Gothic motifs discussed
include spectrality, the haunted house, the vampire, doppelganger
and monster. Regional Gothic and the contribution that Gothic
tropes make to queer historical fiction and historiography receive
attention, as does the AIDS narrative. Female Gothic and feminist
perspectives are also explored. Writers discussed include Peter
Ackroyd, Vincent Brome, Jim Grimsley, Alan Hollinghurst, Randall
Kenan, Meg Kingston, Michelle Paver, Susan Swan, Louise Tondeur,
Sarah Waters, Kathleen Winter and Jeanette Winterson.