Because gothic fiction was the one semi-respectable genre that
regularly explored sexual and social transgressions during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, George E. Haggerty's Queer
Gothic argues that it makes sense to consider the ways in which
gothic fiction itself helped to shape thinking about sexual
matters, create the darker shadows of the dominant fiction, and
jump-start the age of sexology. Haggerty examines a variety of
issues, including the ways in which gothic fiction centers on loss
as the foreclosure of homoerotic possibility, the uses to which
same-sex desire can be put in a patriarchal culture, and the
relationship between transgressive sexual behaviors and a range of
religious behaviors understood as "Catholic." Other chapters
consider the erotic implications of gothic millenialism and move
beyond the eighteenth century to discuss gothic fiction in the
1890s and 1990s, including Henry James's The Ambassadors, Anne
Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, and Patricia Highsmith's The
Talented Mr. Ripley.
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