Queer Gothic

Explores a full spectrum of Gothic works broadly understood as queer, from the eighteenth century to todayExplores Gothic themes through nuanced queer lensesRe-visits past ideas of queer theory and expands on them within Gothic contextFocuses on time periods, genres, and queer Gothic modesQueer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion features sixteen essays that interrogate queer theory s intersections with the Gothic. By re-visiting the usefulness of the term queer and pushing queer theoretical frameworks into new territory, this volume explores the ways that Gothic and queer work alongside each other: one as a marginalised genre and the other as a marginalised identity. Considering both major and lesser-known Gothic works, and ranging from the canonical (poetry and fiction) to the popular (film, video games, music, and visual and performance art), it offers queer and trans perspectives on a wide selection of Gothic modes, genres and texts from fiction such as Hugh Walpole s The Castle of Otranto to Jeanette Winterson s The Daylight Gate, films from Nosferatu to The Cured and TV shows including In the Flesh and Pose.