Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age

The Penetrating Eye

• Author(s): M. Fincher,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 205
• ISBN_10: 0230223176
  ISBN_13: 9780230223172
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Literary Criticism / Renaissance , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... This book argues that Gothic writing of the Romantic period is queer. Using a variety of texts, it argues that contemporary queer theory can help us to read the obliqueness and invisibility of same-sex desire in a culture of vigilance. Fincher shows how the Gothic's ambivalent gender politics destabilize heteronormative narratives.