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Queer Gothic

An Edinburgh Companion
  • Ardel Haefele-Thomas
  • Edited by: Ardel Haefele-Thomas and Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023

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Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion features sixteen essays that interrogate queer theory’s intersections with the Gothic. By re-visiting the usefulness of the term ‘queer’ and pushing queer theoretical frameworks into new territory, this volume explores the ways that Gothic and queer work alongside each other: one as a marginalised genre and the other as a marginalised identity. Considering both major and lesser-known Gothic works, and ranging from the canonical (poetry and fiction) to the popular (film, video games, music, and visual and performance art), it offers queer and trans perspectives on a wide selection of Gothic modes, genres and texts from fiction such as Hugh Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto to Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate, films from Nosferatu to The Cured and TV shows including In the Flesh and Pose.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Figures

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    Acknowledgements

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    Introduction to Queer Gothic: ‘I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey’

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  • Part I: Queer Times
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    1. Desiring Deformity in the Romantic Gothic

    17
    Jeremy Chow
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    2. Queer Gothic: Romantic Origins and Victorian Innovations

    38
    Jolene Zigarovich
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    3. Strange Cases of the Queer fin de siècle: Law, Medicine and the Gothic Imaginative Mode

    58
    Jamil Mustafa
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    4. Gothic Cinema and Sexology in the Weimar Republic: Towards a Queer Gothic Aesthetic on Screen

    78
    Dennis Wegner
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    5. ‘Tarting up ideas in costume jewellery’: Contemporary Gothic Camp

    97
    Thomas Brassington
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  • Part II: Queer Monsters
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    6. Queer Vampires: What We Want is in the Shadows

    117
    S. Brooke Cameron
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    7. Queer Zombies

    136
    Xavier Aldana Reyes
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    8. ‘Queer-Wolves and Wolf-Boyz and Were-Bears, Oh My!’: Queering the Wolf in New Queer Horror Film and TV

    154
    Darren Elliott-Smith
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    9. ‘Spectrality is in part a mode of historicity’: Representations of Spectrality in Queer Historiography and Contemporary Fiction

    174
    Paulina Palmer
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    10. Witchcraft, Gender and Queerness in Contemporary British Literature

    189
    Silvia Antosa
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  • Part III: Queer Forms
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    11. Queer Gothic Poetry

    209
    Clayton Carlyle Tarr
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    12. Queer Gothic Visual Art: A Twisted Path from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-First

    226
    Laura Westengard
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    13. Queering Gothic Slash Fandoms: Harry Potter, Ginger Snaps and Worldbuilding

    244
    Gregory Luke Chwala
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    14. Solidarity is More than a Slogan: Queer Representation in the Virtual World

    262
    Dawn Stobbart
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    15. ‘Y’all ain’t from around these parts’: Queer Displacement in American Folk Horror

    279
    Amanda Cruz
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    16. This is What Queer Resistance Looks Like: AIDS Gothic Art

    295
    Ardel Haefele-Thomas
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    Bibliography

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    Filmography

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    Notes on Contributors

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    Index

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