1. Desiring Deformity in the Romantic Gothic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction to Queer Gothic: ‘I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey’ 1
6. Part I: Queer Times
7. 1. Desiring Deformity in the Romantic Gothic 17
8. 2. Queer Gothic: Romantic Origins and Victorian Innovations 38
9. 3. Strange Cases of the Queer fin de siècle: Law, Medicine and the Gothic Imaginative Mode 58
10. 4. Gothic Cinema and Sexology in the Weimar Republic: Towards a Queer Gothic Aesthetic on Screen 78
11. 5. ‘Tarting up ideas in costume jewellery’: Contemporary Gothic Camp 97
12. Part II: Queer Monsters
13. 6. Queer Vampires: What We Want is in the Shadows 117
14. 7. Queer Zombies 136
15. 8. ‘Queer-Wolves and Wolf-Boyz and Were-Bears, Oh My!’: Queering the Wolf in New Queer Horror Film and TV 154
16. 9. ‘Spectrality is in part a mode of historicity’: Representations of Spectrality in Queer Historiography and Contemporary Fiction 174
17. 10. Witchcraft, Gender and Queerness in Contemporary British Literature 189
18. Part III: Queer Forms
19. 11. Queer Gothic Poetry 209
20. 12. Queer Gothic Visual Art: A Twisted Path from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-First 226
21. 13. Queering Gothic Slash Fandoms: Harry Potter, Ginger Snaps and Worldbuilding 244
22. 14. Solidarity is More than a Slogan: Queer Representation in the Virtual World 262
23. 15. ‘Y’all ain’t from around these parts’: Queer Displacement in American Folk Horror 279
24. 16. This is What Queer Resistance Looks Like: AIDS Gothic Art 295
25. Bibliography 313
26. Filmography 337
27. Notes on Contributors 339
28. Index 343