Chapter 16 Queer Gothic Literature and Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Going to Extremes – The Gothic in the Twentieth Century 1
5. Part I Gothic Evolutions
6. Chapter 1 The Edwardian Supernatural 13
7. Chapter 2 Weird Fiction in the Twentieth Century 33
8. Chapter 3 Gothic Modernisms 49
9. Chapter 4 Gothic Criticism in the Twentieth Century: Who is This Who is Coming? 64
10. Part II The Gothic and Technology/Transmedia Considerations
11. Chapter 5 The Birth of an Evil Thought: The Gothic in Silent-Era Cinema 81
12. Chapter 6 Grand-Guignol as Twentieth-Century Gothic Drama 99
13. Chapter 7 Mid-Century Gothic Cinema (1931–79): From Monster Business to Exploitation Horror 114
14. Chapter 8 The Unheimlich State: Surveillance and the Digital Nation 129
15. Chapter 9 Gothic Horror Films at the ‘Fin-de-Millennium’: From Nightmare Videos to Filtered Realities (1980–2000) 144
16. Part III Key Themes and Topics in Twentieth-Century Gothic
17. Chapter 10 Twentieth-Century War Gothic 163
18. Chapter 11 Russian Twentieth-Century Gothic: The Irrepressible Undead 180
19. Chapter 12 The Gothic 1950s 196
20. Chapter 13 Masks of Sanity: Psychopathy and the Twentieth-Century Gothic 213
21. Chapter 14 Troubling Legacies: African American Women’s Gothic from Zora Neale Hurston to Tananarive Due 228
22. Chapter 15 Medical Humanities and the Twentieth-Century Gothic 243
23. Chapter 16 Queer Gothic Literature and Culture 259
24. Chapter 17 ‘Nightmares of the Normative’: African American Gothic and the Rejection of the American Ideal 273
25. Chapter 18 Big Bad Wolves and Angry Sharks: The Ecogothic and a Century of Environmental Change 290
26. Notes on Contributors 305
27. Index 310