Queer Gothic Marc A. Schuckit plus contributions from noted scholars

plus contributions from noted scholars Dean Keith Simonton

Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within these pages

along with questions and tasks to promote critical engagement and reflection on key issues and debates

Nativism--an intense opposition to immigrants and other non- native members of society--has been deeply imbedded in the American character from the earliest days of the nation

breaking habits

Queer Gothic Marc A. Schuckit plus contributions from noted scholarsBecause gothic fiction was the one semi respectable genre that regularly explored sexual and social transgressions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, George Haggerty's Queer Gothic argues that it makes sense to consider the ways in which gothic fiction itself helped to shape thinking about sexual matters, create the darker shadows of the dominant fiction, and jump start the age of sexology. Haggerty examines a variety of issues, including