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Gothic Masculinity : Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism, Hardback Book

Gothic Masculinity : Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism Hardback

Part of the Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture series

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Cultural and individual fantasies of masculinity enter troubling terrain in gothic tales of British and German Romanticism.

In the interiority of dreams and visionary spaces, a male protagonist makes a fateful encounter with a supernaturalized force and finds himself dispossessed of his real and symbolic masculine estate.

Emphasizing the interdisciplinary range of this recurring motif, Ellen Brinks traces "distressed masculinity" in canonical instances of gothic imagination - Byron's Oriental Tales and Coleridge's Christabel - but also in works such as Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Keats's Hyperion fragments, and Freud's letters and scientific writings. An elegant and compelling account of the construction of sex and gender in the Gothic, Gothic Masculinity will be of interest to scholars of sexuality, gender, queer theory, Romantic subjectivity, and the German and English Gothic.

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