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The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle

The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle

Hurley, Kelly
Beer, Gillian

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 8

General Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521552591
ISBN13: 9780521552592
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 5 1996
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siècle. In particular, 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. Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre, strongly indebted to nineteenth-century scientific, medical and social theories, including evolutionism, criminal anthropology and degeneration theory.

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