In "Queer Others in Victorian "Gothic, Ardel Haefele-Thomas examines a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gothic novels, short stories, and films through the lens of queer cultural studies. In some of these works, as Haefele-Thomas demonstrates, the author or filmmaker fully intended to explore the complicated landscape of queer sexuality and gender identity.In most, however, the author or filmmaker s intentions are unclear.Haefele-Thomas takes on these works, first employing queer in its nineteenth-century historical context, to point to their generally weird, odd, or ill...
In "Queer Others in Victorian "Gothic, Ardel Haefele-Thomas examines a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gothic novels, short stories, an...