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Synopsis
George Haggerty examines the ways in which gothic fiction centers on loss as the foreclosure of homoerotic possibility and the relationship between transgressive sexual behaviors and a range of religious behaviors understood as 'Catholic'.
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Book Description
Discovering the role of gothic fiction for the age of sexology
Because gothic fiction was the one semi-respectable genre that regularly explored sexual and social transgressions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, George Haggerty’s Queer Gothic argues that it makes sense to consider the ways in which gothic fiction itself helped to shape thinking about sexual matters, create the darker shadows of the dominant fiction, and jump-start the age of sexology.
Haggerty examines a variety of issues, including the ways in which gothic fiction centers on loss as the foreclosure of homoerotic possibility, the uses to which same-sex desire can be put in a patriarchal culture, and the relationship between transgressive sexual behaviors and a range of religious behaviors understood as “Catholic.” Other chapters consider the erotic implications of gothic millenialism and move beyond the eighteenth century to discuss gothic fiction in the 1890s and 1990s, including Henry James’s The Ambassadors, Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, and Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley.
About the Author
George Haggerty is a professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form,Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century, and Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century.
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- PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0252031083
- ISBN 13 9780252031083
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages248
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