S. Karschay, "Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1349496995 | PDF | pages: 305 | 1.1 mb
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1349496995 | PDF | pages: 305 | 1.1 mb
This exciting new study looks at 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 siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?