Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvS. Karschay,Stephan Karschay

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This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?

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Utgivningsdatum2015-01-30
Mått140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Antal sidor304
Upplaga2015
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137450326

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Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Degeneration and the Victorian Sciences 3. Detecting the Degenerate: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan 4. Othering the Degenerate: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Richard Marsh's The Beetle 5. Normalising the Degenerate: Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan 6. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

"Stephan Karschay examines the prominent questions posed by degeneration theory-what causes human deviance and how can it be detected-by tracing the complex development of degeneration theory ... . Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siecle offers readers a productive place to begin interdisciplinary endeavors in Gothic literature, science, and the genealogy of degeneration theory." (Sharla Hutchison, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 59 (3), January, 2016)