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sapphism in the long eighteenth century
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Beynon, John C. > [ed]
- Creator
- Gonda, Caroline > [ed]
- Contributor
- Lanser, Stephen S.
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1C 2010
- Thesaurus
- lesbianisme, seksualiteit, vrouwelijkheid, pornografie, gothic novels, schrijvers, 18e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- The authors in this book look at how romantic and erotic relationships between women are represented in the literature of the long eighteenth century? How does Sapphism surface in other contemporary discourses, including politics, pornography, economics and art? This collection offers new scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The contributors provide varied research of lesbianism and Sapphism. They build on the work of scholarship on Sapphism and interrogate the efficacy of such a notion in describing the varieties of same-sex love between women during the long eighteenth century. The volume examines lesbian representation and culture in this era and presents a diversity of theoretical and critical approaches, from close literary analysis to the history of reading and publishing, psychoanalysis, biography, historicism, deconstruction and queer theory.
gothic rewriting from the eighteenth century until the present day
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Elferen, Isabella van > [ed]
- Contributor
- Lima, Maria Antonia
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2007 - A
- Thesaurus
- popmuziek, films, media, gothic novels, horror, etniciteit, seksualiteit, 18e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to an aspect of Gothic texts, films, and music: that of rewriting. From the eighteenth-century Gothic novel to present-day vampire films and Goth music, the genre is characterised by its nostalgic reflection on past worlds, narratives, and identities. Gothic nostalgia is often accompanied by a transgressive drive, resulting in perversions of the rewritten past—the modern vampire is no longer embodied evil but an attractive dandy, while Goth subcultures reflect on Victorian aesthetics but pervert them by adding fetishist elements.This book brings together the early Gothic novel, present-day female and black Gothic literature, Goth subculture and music, and the imagery of horror films and comic books, thus broadening the definition of ‘Gothic’ from a literary genre to a gesture of pervasive cultural criticism.
essays on sexual difference in gothic literature
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- Book/Boek
- Contributor
- Laity, K.A.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- gothic novels, seksualiteit, homoseksualiteit, lesbianisme, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- The Gothic moment in literary history arose in the age of the Enlightenment, and the Gothic fascination with the unknown reflects the Enlightenment's response to the limits of reason. Traditionally, the emblem of the unknown that lurks in the Gothic is the supernatural, the monstrous, and the inhuman. Often overlooked is the observation that Gothic texts are also haunted by figures that represent the mystery of sexuality. .This collection of essays sharpens that observation and asserts that Gothic anxieties about sexuality are likewise rooted in fear of the unknown, represented by sexual practices and desires that either lie hidden or deviate from cultural norms. The first three sections refer to popular as well as marginalized Gothic texts to portray the three prototypes of sexual 'deviance': the female sexual Other in 'The Fatal Woman': the male sexual Other in 'The Satanic Male': and the homosexual Other in 'Homosexual Horror.' The fourth section covers literary works that celebrate sexual difference and question the idea that the sexually 'deviant' is socially Other.
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