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Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age

The Penetrating Eye

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  • © 2007

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  1. Max Fincher
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Max Fincher
    Pages 1-22

  3. Reading the Gaze: A Culture of Vigilance

    • Max Fincher
    Pages 23-44

  4. Guessing the Mould: Or, The Castle of Otranto?

    • Max Fincher
    Pages 45-64

  5. Vathek and the Monstrous Queer

    • Max Fincher
    Pages 65-86

  6. Camping in the Monastery: The Monk

    • Max Fincher
    Pages 87-109

  7. Caleb Williams and the Queer Sublime

    • Max Fincher
    Pages 110-130

  8. Penetrating Eye(s): Lara, The Giaour, The Vampyre

    • Max Fincher
    Pages 131-156

  9. Conclusion

    • Max Fincher
    Pages 157-163

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 164-205
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This book argues that Gothic writing of the Romantic period is queer. Using a variety of texts, it argues that contemporary queer theory can help us to read the obliqueness and invisibility of same-sex desire in a culture of vigilance. Fincher shows how the Gothic's ambivalent gender politics destabilize heteronormative narratives.

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'Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age makes a significant scholarly contribution to romanticism, the Gothic, and Queer Theory. Fincher's thought-provoking analysis of male-authored Gothic texts provides an important starting point for a reassessment of how reading queerly can illuminate the Gothic tradition.' - Professor Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK

'Fincher's study is imaginative, bold and historically well-grounded overall...in terms of its insightful new contextualisations of early male Gothic texts, this work is worth reading. It makes a timeley and thoughtful contribution to Gothic, Romantic and Queer studies.' - Sue Chaplin, British Association for Romantic Studes Bulletin and Review

'...a fruitful and suggestive study of recurring motifs of secrecy, the gaze, shame, and their links to same-sex desire and homophobia.' - Sharon Ruston, Times Literary Supplement

'If Gothic Studies restore the body to Romanticism's usual focus on the mind, Fincher's work foregrounds just how messy, indeterminable and queer the bodies of Romantic men really are; this study braids gay and lesbian history with queer theory to penetrate the Gothic in new and innovative ways.' - Routledge ABES June 2011

About the author

MAX FINCHER gained his PhD from King's College London, UK, where he taught on women's writing and the Gothic. He has written articles and reviews on Gothic and queer studies for Gothic Studies, Film Quarterly and the Times Literary Supplement. His research interests are in the history of sexuality, queer studies and Romanticism.

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