| Description |
1 online resource (233 pages). |
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Lettre (Transcript (Firm)) |
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Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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| Note |
Revised thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Tübingen, 2014. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
¬Houses, Secrets, and the Closet± investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts through the lens of domestic space, gender, knowledge, and power. This approach serves to investigate the cultural roots of the 'closet' - the male homosexual secret - which reveals a more general notion of male sec. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Prelude: Bluebeard -- Context: history, houses, and masculinities -- Methods: secrecy, sexuality, and liminal spaces -- Bluebeard's 'closet': gothic novels -- Phallic power: Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto -- The power of absolute spatial access: Ann Radcliffe's The mysteries of Udolpho -- A 'male heroine': William Godwin's Caleb Williams -- The contested secret room: sensation novels. Powerless landlords: Wilkie Collins' The woman in white -- Performing subversion: Wilkie Collins' No name -- A female Bluebeard: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's secret -- Globalising the 'closet': Henry James. Masculine disempowerment in a woman's mansion: Henry James' "The Aspern papers" -- Female power in the cage of knowledge: Henry James' "In the cage" -- Autoerotic paranoia in the 'closet': Henry James' "The jolly corner." |
| Subject |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Masculinity in literature. (OCoLC)fst01011040
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bauer, Gero. Houses, secrets, and the closet. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016] 9783837634686 (OCoLC)947282030 |
| ISBN |
9783839434680 (electronic bk.) |
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3839434688 (electronic bk.) |
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9783837634686 |
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383763468X |
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