{"product_id":"the-gothic-body-sexuality-materialism-and-degeneration-at-the-fin-de-siecle-hardback-9780521552592","title":"The Gothic Body; Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle (Hardback) 9780521552592","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Gothic Body\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe popularity of the Gothic in the British fin de siècle, and its links with scientific and social theories.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKelly Hurley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521552592, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 December 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e220 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.442 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReaders 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 siècle. 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 representations of Gothic bodies are strongly indebted to those found in nineteenth-century biology and social medicine, evolutionism, criminal anthropology, and degeneration theory. Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre, standing in opportunistic relation to nineteenth-century scientific and social theories.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Gothic Material World: 1. The revenge of matter\u003cbr\u003e 2. Symptomatic readings\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Gothic Bodies: 3. Evolutionism and the loss of human specificity\u003cbr\u003e 4. Entropic bodies\u003cbr\u003e 5. Chaotic bodies\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Gothic Sexualities: 6. Uncanny female interiors\u003cbr\u003e 7. Abjected masculinities\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e 8. Narrative chaos.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004964491544,"sku":"9780521552592","price":73.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521552592i_dbd6a2fb-5d70-4009-be69-703df7b63751.jpg?v=1691369585","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-gothic-body-sexuality-materialism-and-degeneration-at-the-fin-de-siecle-hardback-9780521552592","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}