Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle E-Book

S. Karschay

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

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'?