Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle

Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle PDF Author: S. Karschay
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137450339
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Book Description
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'?