Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture book series (PNWC)
About this book
Introduction
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'?
Keywords
Gothic nineteenth-century science nineteenth-century fiction Victorian fiction degeneration normativity fiction Robert Louis Stevenson Victorian era
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450333
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-49699-0
- Online ISBN 978-1-137-45033-3
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