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The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle

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The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle - Hurley, Kelly
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Readers familiar with Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may not know that dozens of equally remarkable Gothic texts were written in Great Britain at the end of the nineteenth-century. This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de si???cle. Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a unified and stable human identity, and the emergence of a chaotic and transformative 'abhuman' identity in its place. She shows that such ...

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The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle 2004, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521607117

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The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521552592

Hardcover