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Author:

Karschay, Stephan, 1980-

Title:

Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Si©·cle / Stephan Karschay.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

ix, 295 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.
Literature and science--History and criticism.
Degeneration in literature.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-288) and index.

Contents:

6. Conclusion. 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.

Summary:

"This exciting new study looks at figures of 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 si©·cle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? When is a variation of the norm pronounced enough to qualify as 'pathological'? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal', and what happens if individuals find themselves on the 'wrong' side of the divide? Stephan Karschay addresses these questions through extensive readings of works by scientists such as Darwin, Lombroso, Maudsley, and Krafft-Ebing, and the most famous Gothic novels of R. L. Stevenson, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh, Oscar Wilde and Marie Corelli"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

ISBN:

1137450320 (hardback)
9781137450326 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)890756968

LCCN:

2014038791

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)