University of Illinois Press, 2000 Paper: 978-0-252-07353-3 | Cloth: 978-0-252-03108-3 Library of Congress Classification PR830.T3H254 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 823.0872909
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
REVIEWS
"An important book. . . . Haggerty leads the way in redirecting our gaze towards where there is an absence of love between men rather than the suspicion of sex between them, where we find that Gothic writing is queer."--Gothic Studies
"Compellingly makes the case for gothic fiction's function as an indispensable resource for representations of queer sexuality and identity formation."--Journal of the History of Sexuality
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction: Queer Gothic
Part I. Gothic Sexuality
1. Gothic Fiction and the History of Sexuality
2. Gothic Fiction and the Erotics of Loss
3. Dung, Guts, and Blood: Sodomy, Abjection, and
the Gothic
Part II. Gothic Culture
4. The Horrors of Catholicism: Religion and
Sexuality in
Gothic Fiction
5. Psycho-Drama: Hypertheatricality and Sexual
Excess on the
Gothic Stage
6. "The End of History": Identity and Dissolution
in
Apocalyptic Gothic
Part III. Gothic Fictions and the Queering of Culture
7. "Queer Company": The Turn of the Screw and The
Haunting
of Hill House
8. "Queerer Knowledge": Lambert Strether and Tom
Ripley
9. Anne Rice and the Queering of Culture
Conclusion
Notes
University of Illinois Press, 2000 Paper: 978-0-252-07353-3 Cloth: 978-0-252-03108-3
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
REVIEWS
"An important book. . . . Haggerty leads the way in redirecting our gaze towards where there is an absence of love between men rather than the suspicion of sex between them, where we find that Gothic writing is queer."--Gothic Studies
"Compellingly makes the case for gothic fiction's function as an indispensable resource for representations of queer sexuality and identity formation."--Journal of the History of Sexuality
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction: Queer Gothic
Part I. Gothic Sexuality
1. Gothic Fiction and the History of Sexuality
2. Gothic Fiction and the Erotics of Loss
3. Dung, Guts, and Blood: Sodomy, Abjection, and
the Gothic
Part II. Gothic Culture
4. The Horrors of Catholicism: Religion and
Sexuality in
Gothic Fiction
5. Psycho-Drama: Hypertheatricality and Sexual
Excess on the
Gothic Stage
6. "The End of History": Identity and Dissolution
in
Apocalyptic Gothic
Part III. Gothic Fictions and the Queering of Culture
7. "Queer Company": The Turn of the Screw and The
Haunting
of Hill House
8. "Queerer Knowledge": Lambert Strether and Tom
Ripley
9. Anne Rice and the Queering of Culture
Conclusion
Notes