The Gothic body : sexuality, materialism, and degeneration at the fin de siècle
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The Gothic body : sexuality, materialism, and degeneration at the fin de siècle
（Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 8）
Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Bibliography: p. 191-199
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Readers familiar with Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may not know that dozens of equally remarkable Gothic texts were written in Great Britain at the end of the nineteenth-century. 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 bodies 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.
目次
- Introduction
- Part I. The Gothic Material World: 1. The revenge of matter
- 2. Symptomatic readings
- Part II. Gothic Bodies: 3. Evolutionism and the loss of human specificity
- 4. Entropic bodies
- 5. Chaotic bodies
- Part III. Gothic Sexualities: 6. Uncanny female interiors
- 7. Abjected masculinities
- Afterword
- 8. Narrative chaos.
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