Queer Others in Victorian Gothic : Transgressing Monstrosity, Paperback by Ha...

Queer Others in Victorian Gothic : Transgressing Monstrosity, Paperback by Haefele-thomas, Ardel, ISBN 0708324657, ISBN-13 9780708324653, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US<p></p><div>In <i>Queer Others in Victorian </i>Gothic, Ardel Haefele-Thomas examines a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gothic novels, short stories, and films through the lens of queer cultural studies. In some of these works, as Haefele-Thomas demonstrates, the author or filmmaker fully intended to explore the complicated landscape of queer sexuality and gender identity.&#160;In most, however, the author or filmmaker&#8217;s intentions are unclear.</div><div>&#160;</div><div>Haefele-Thomas takes on these works, first employing &#8220;queer&#8221; in its nineteenth-century historical context, to point to their generally weird, odd, or ill components. She then explores them using &#8220;queer&#8221; in the complex and politically charged context from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.&#160;Haefele-Thomas argues that part of what makes these texts Gothic are their covert queer content. She also reveals that queer theory&#8212;lacking the gender specificity found in gay and lesbian theories and historiographies&#8212;allows room to convey gender, sexuality, race, class, and familial structures in a specific state of anti-categorization.&#160;<i>Queers Others in Victorian Gothic</i> will appeal to anyone interested in the intersection of gender, sexuality, and literary criticism.</div>