Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality

Acknowledgements
Content Warnings
List of Contributors

Introduction: Gothic and TransgressionSarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Muenderlein

Part I: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesSarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Muenderlein

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 Muenderlein

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 Planinsek Zlof

7 The Unspeakable Plant - Gender, Desire, and the Monstrous Vegetal in Frances Hardinge's The Lie TreeAnja Hoeing

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 Braendle

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 Muenderlein

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• Estudos literários: geral
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• Os estudos de gênero, grupos de gênero
• Comportamento sexual
• Estudos cultirais

queer theory;ecogothic criticism;feminist literary analysis;monstrous femininity;narrative transgression;media adaptation studies;gendered gothic representation