Degeneration, normativity and the gothic at the Fin de siècle
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Degeneration, normativity and the gothic at the Fin de siècle
（Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-288) and index
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Description
This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Degeneration and the Victorian Sciences 3. Detecting the Degenerate: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan 4. Othering the Degenerate: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Richard Marsh's The Beetle 5. Normalising the Degenerate: Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan 6. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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