Contents
Introduction: Queer Gothic
Part I. Gothic Sexuality
1. Gothic Fiction and the History of Sexuality
2. Gothic Fiction and the Erotics of Loss
3. Dung, Guts, and Blood: Sodomy, Abjection, and
the Gothic
Part II. Gothic Culture
4. The Horrors of Catholicism: Religion and
Sexuality in
Gothic Fiction
5. Psycho-Drama: Hypertheatricality and Sexual
Excess on the
Gothic Stage
6. "The End of History": Identity and Dissolution
in
Apocalyptic Gothic
Part III. Gothic Fictions and the Queering of Culture
7. "Queer Company": The Turn of the Screw and The
Haunting
of Hill House
8. "Queerer Knowledge": Lambert Strether and Tom
Ripley
9. Anne Rice and the Queering of Culture
Conclusion
Notes