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From early examples of queer representation in mainstream media to present-day dissolutions of the human-nature boundary, the Gothic is always concerned with delineating and transgressing the norms that regulate society and speak to our collective fears and anxieties.
This volume examines British and American Gothic texts from four centuries and diverse media - including novels, films, podcasts, and games - in case studies which outline the central relationship between the Gothic and transgression, particularly gender(ed) and sexual transgression. This relationship is both crucial and constantly shifting, ever in the process of renegotiation, as transgression defines the Gothic and society redefines transgression. The case studies draw on a combination of well-studied and under-studied texts in order to arrive at a more comprehensive picture of transgression in the Gothic.
Pointing the way forward in Gothic Studies, this original and nuanced combination of gendered, Ecogothic, queer, and media critical approaches addresses established and new scholars of the Gothic alike.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Content Warnings
List of Contributors
Introduction: Gothic and TransgressionSarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Part I: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesSarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
1 .Excessive Fainting and Parodic Bending: Analysing Socio-Political Criticism Through the Heroine's Body in the Gothic Novel and the Gothic Parody.
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
2 The Comfort of the Male Gaze in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
Franziska Quabeck
3 Gothic Monster or Creative Muse? Strategies of Empowerment in Grace King's "One of Us"
Alycia Garbay
4 From Gothic Heroines to Monstrous Prom Queens: Gender Horror in Dracula and Jennifer's Body
Kit Schuster
5 Violet Strange: Gothic Girl Detective
Keli Masten
Part II: Gothic from the World Wars to the Present
6 "I Don't Want to Grow Up:" Abject Adolescence and Southern Gothic in Carson McCullers's Short Stories
Jerneja Planinšek Žlof
7 The Unspeakable Plant - Gender, Desire, and the Monstrous Vegetal in Frances Hardinge's The Lie TreeAnja Höing
8 'Annihilation' of the Gendered Human: Ecogothic Transgressions of Anthropocentrism
Maria Hornisch and Tamara Schmitt
9 Transgressing Genre and Gender: Masculinities and (Post)Feminism in Neo-Gothic Narratives
Miriam Borham-Puyal
10 "But It Seems to Me That I Have Absorbed Ruth" - Gothic Doubles in Laura Purcell's The Corset
Lara Brändle
11 Archive of the Unspeakable: Unsilencing Violence in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House
Carolin Jesussek
12 Narrating the (Queer) Gothic in the Podcast The Magnus Archives
Maria Juko
13 The Wholesome Queer Gothic: Transgressing Narrative Norms and Shifting LGBTQIA+ Representation in Contemporary Re-Inventions of the Gothic
Sarah Faber
Conclusion: Gothic Prospects - Ancient Monsters and New Anxieties
Sarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Index