The Gothic body : sexuality, materialism, and degeneration at the fin de siècle

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Label

The Gothic body : sexuality, materialism, and degeneration at the fin de siècle

Title remainder

sexuality, materialism, and degeneration at the fin de siècle

Statement of responsibility

Kelly Hurley

Creator

• Hurley, Kelly

Subject

• Degeneration in literature
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• History
• Horror tales, English -- History and criticism
• Human body in literature
• Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Materialism in literature
• Sex in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siecle. Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a unified and stable human identity, and the emergence of a chaotic and transformative "abhuman" identity in its place. She shows that such representations of gothic bodices are strongly indebted to those found in nineteenth-century biology and social medicine, evolutionism, criminal anthropology, and degeneration theory. Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre, standing in opportunistic relation to nineteenth-century scientific and social theories

Member of

• Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 8

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.0872909

Index

index present

LC call number

PR878.T3

LC item number

H87 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Series volume

8