Overview
- Discusses the way in which Gothic motifs and narrative strategies act as a vehicle for representing and examining queer sexuality and different forms of transgender and transsexuality in contemporary queer theory and fiction
- Examines contemporary queer Gothic fiction in the context of queer and postmodern theory
- Analyses the roles that spectrality, the haunted house narrative, the vampire, the doppelganger, the monster, uncanny landscapes and cityscapes and other Gothic motifs play in queer fiction
- Introduces reference to different kinds of contemporary queer fiction, including the ghost story, haunted house narrative, vampire narrative, the AIDS novel, and queer historical fiction and historiography
Part of the book series: Palgrave Gothic (PAGO)
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“The scope of Queering Contemporary Gothic Narrative 1970–2012 is stunning because the text functions as an outstanding addition to queer theory focusing on Gothic narrative. However, it is also outstanding in the ways that Palmer brings together classic and well-known and researched queer Gothic stories alongside numerous new and lesser known contemporary works.” (Ardel Haefele-Thomas, Gothic Studies, Vol. 20 (1-2), 2018)
“Paulina Palmer’s Queering contemporary Gothic builds on her earlier groundbreaking Lesbian Gothic and The Queer Uncanny offering new, exciting research and explorations of a wide range of queer Gothic texts. Queering contemporary Gothic achieves a fine, scholarly balance between challenging and extending established readings of some key familiar texts and exploring, bringing to light less familiar, important texts.” (Gina Wisker, University of Brighton, UK)
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Book Title: Queering Contemporary Gothic Narrative 1970-2012
Authors: Paulina Palmer
Series Title: Palgrave Gothic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-30355-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-67170-0Published: 05 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30355-4Published: 21 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6214
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6222
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 204
Topics: Cultural Theory, Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Genre, Feminism