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An Odd Sexual Mood

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From: Novel
Date: 20060701
Author:Juengel, Scott J

An Odd Sexual Mood GEORGE E. HAGGERTY, Queer Gothic (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006), pp. 350, cloth, $65.00, paper, $20.00.

We've known for some time that there was something queer about gothic fiction, something contrapuntal, even radical, in its terrors. Like the last vestiges of the romance in the nineteenth century, the gothic tends to serve as a vehicle for imagining those forms of sexual dynamism and dissent that the bourgeois revolution sought to foreclose. In Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, the gothic novel quite literally begins with an outlandish death in the place of a ...

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